1 Timothy 4:15 Meditate on these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all. Meditation chews the cud, and gets the sweetness and nutritive virtue of the Word into the heart and life: this is the way the godly bring forth much fruit. (Ashworth.) The naturalists observe that to uphold and accommodate bodily life, there are divers sorts of faculties communicated, and these among the rest — 1. An attractive faculty, to assume and draw in the food. 2. A retentive faculty, to retain it when taken in. 3. An assimilating faculty, to concoct the nourishment. 4. An augmenting faculty, for drawing to perfection.Meditation is all these. It helps judgment, wisdom and faith to ponder, discern, and credit the things which reading and hearing supply and furnish. It assists the memory to lock up the jewels of Divine truth in her sure treasury; It has a digesting power, and turns spiritual truth into spiritual nourishment; and lastly, it helps the renewed heart to grow upward and increase its power to know the things which are freely given to us of God. (J. Ranew.) Parallel Verses KJV: Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. |
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