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33HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
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I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. …
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-34)Here, I. David prays earnestly that God himself would be his teacher; he had prophets, and wise men, and priests, about him, and was himself well instructed in the law of God, yet he begs to be taught of God, as knowing that none teaches like him , Job 36:22. Observe here, 1. What he desires to be taught, not the notions or language of God’s statutes, but the way of them—“the way of applying them…
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