Psalm 119:130 The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. I. A GREAT BLESSING. 1. Light is the chief means of knowledge. 2. Another effect of light is cheerfulness (Ecclesiastes 11:7). 3. Light is productive of healthy growth. II. THE MEANS OF ITS COMMUNICATION. What is the psalmist's idea? Is it the glory of the daybreak — the "opening" of the earth, and air, and sky by the beams of the rising sun? Or the "opening" as of the seed-sprout, or the bud that unfolds its mysterious and beauteous pleats to the light of day? "The opening of Thy words," i.e. the hearing them and getting at their secret meaning, the blessed messages of love, of pardon, peace. Where are these "words" of God? All around us in His works and ways! (J. E. Flower, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.WEB: The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple. |
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