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105NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 105)Observe here, 1. The nature of the word of God, and the great intention of giving it to the world; it is a lamp and a light . It discovers to us, concerning God and ourselves, that which otherwise we could not have known; it shows us what is amiss, and will be dangerous; it directs us in our work and way, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. It is a lamp which we may set up by us…
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