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Psalms 119:140

Psalms 119:140

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible · Matthew Henry (1662–1714) · Public Domain

Here is, 1. David's great affection for the word of God: Thy servant

loves it. Every good man, being a servant of God, loves the word of

God, because it lets him know his Master's will and directs him in his

Master's work. Wherever there is grace there is a warm attachment to

the word of God. 2. The ground and reason of that affection; he saw it

to be very pure, and therefore he loved it. Our love to the word of God

is then an evidence of our love to God when we love it for the sake of

its purity, because it bears the image of God's holiness and is

designed to make us partakers of his holiness. It commands purity, and,

as it is itself refined from all corrupt mixture, so if we receive it

in the light and love of it it will refine us from the dross of

worldliness and fleshly-mindedness.

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