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103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: …
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 103-104)Here is, 1. The wonderful pleasure and delight which David took in the word of God; it was sweet to his taste, sweeter than honey . There is such a thing as a spiritual taste, an inward savour and relish of divine things, such an evidence of them to ourselves, by experience, as we cannot give to others. We have heard him ourselves , John 4:2. To this scripture-taste the word of God is sweet, very…
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