Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 118:140
Verse 140. Thy word is very pure ] hpwrx tseruphah, it is purification. It is not a purified thing, but a thing that purifies. "Now ye are clean," said Christ, "by the word I have spoken unto you." God's word is a fire to purify as well as a hammer to break.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 137-144 - God never did, and never can do wrong to any. The promises ar faithfully performed by Him that made them. Zeal against sin shoul constrain us to do what we can against it, at least to do more i religion ourselves. Our love to the word of God is evidence of our love to God, because it is designed to make us partake his holiness. Men' real excellency always makes them low in their own eyes. When we ar small and despised, we have the more need to remember God's precepts that we may have them to support us. The law of God is the truth, the standard of holiness, the rule of happiness; but the obedience of Christ alone justifies the believer. Sorrows are often the lot of saints in this vale of tears; they are in heaviness through manifol temptations. There are delights in the word of God, which the saint often most sweetly enjoy when in trouble and anguish. This is lif eternal, to know God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent, Joh 17:3. Ma we live the life of faith and grace here, and be removed to the life of glory hereafter.
Original Hebrew
צרופה 6884 אמרתך 565 מאד 3966 ועבדך 5650 אהבה׃ 157
