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50This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 50)Here is David’s experience of benefit by the word. 1. As a means of his sanctification: “ Thy word has quickened me . It made me alive when I was dead in sin; it has many a time made me lively when I was dead in duty; it has quickened me to that which is good when I was backward and averse to it, and it has quickened me in that which is good when I was cold and indifferent.” 2. Therefore as a mean…
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