Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 119:127
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
127. Therefore ] The more men break God’s commandments, the more the Psalmist will love them. Cp. Psa 19:10. P.B.V. precious stone comes through the Vulg. from the LXX.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Therefore I love thy commandments … – The more people break them Psa 119:126, the more I see their value; the more precious they are to me. The fact that they make thy law void, and that evil consequences result from their conduct, only impresses my mind the more with a sense of the value of the law, and makes my heart cling to it the more. There is almost nothing that will so impress upon our minds the importance of law as the sight of the effects which follow when it is disregarded.
Above gold … – See the notes at Psa 119:72. Compare Psa 19:10.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Psa 119:127-131
Therefore I love Thy commandments above gold.
Gods Word
Gods Word is here revealed in several aspects–
I. As a prize. It is above gold.
1. It is intrinsically more valuable than gold. It contains the mind of God.
2. It is relatively more valuable than gold. It procures greater blessings.
II. As a law, All Thy precepts. As a law–
1. It is to be righteous–Concerning all things, to be righteous.
2. It is to be practical, I hate every false way.
III. As a revelation. As a revelation it is–
1. Wonderful, Thy testimonies are wonderful.
2. Spiritually enlightening. The entrance of Thy Word giveth light. It lights up the soul.
IV. As a necessity (verse 131). It is the air without which you cannot breathe, food without which you cannot live. (Homilist.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 127. Therefore I love thy commandments] I see thou wilt do all things well. I will trust in thee.
Above gold] mizzahab, more than resplendent gold; gold without any stain or rust.
Yea, above fine gold.] umippaz, above solid gold; gold separated from the dross, perfectly refined.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Partly, because it is one evidence of their excellency, that they are disliked by the vilest of men; partly, out of a just indignation and opposition against my sworn enemies; and partly, because the great and general apostacy of others makes this duty more necessary to prevent their own and other mens relapses.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
127, 128. Thereforethat is,In view of these benefits, or, Because of the glory of Thy law, somuch praised in the previous parts of the Psalm.
I love . . . [and]Therefore (repeated)All its precepts, on all subjects, areestimable for their purity, and lead one imbued with their spirit tohate all evil (Ps 19:10). TheWord of God admits of no eclecticism; its least title is perfect(Psa 12:6; Mat 5:17-19).
PE.(Ps 119:129-136).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Therefore I love thy commandments,…. Because he was the Lord’s servant, as Aben Ezra; or rather because the wicked made void the law. His love was the more inflamed and increased towards it by the contempt it was had in by others; he preferred it
above gold, yea, above fine gold; or gold of Phez, a place where the best gold was, as was thought: the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it “the topaz”; and the Syriac and Arabic versions, “precious stones” or “gems”; see Ps 119:72.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
David here, as often in this psalm, professes the great love he had to the word and law of God; and, to evidence the sincerity of it, observe, 1. The degree of his love. He loved his Bible better than he loved his money–above gold, yea, above fine gold. Gold, fine gold, is what most men set their hearts upon; nothing charms them and dazzles their eyes so much as gold does. It is fine gold, a fine thing in their eyes; they will venture their souls, their God, their all, to get and keep it. But David saw that the word of God answers all purposes better than money does, for it enriches the soul towards God; and therefore he loved it better than gold, for it had done that for him which gold could not do, and would stand him in stead when the wealth of the world would fail him. 2. The ground of his love. He loved all God’s commandments because he esteemed them to be right, all reasonable and just, and suited to the end for which they were made. They are all as they should be, and no fault can be found with them; and we must love them because they bear God’s image and are the revelations of his will. If we thus consent to the law that it is good, we shall delight in it after the inner man. 3. The fruit and evidence of this love: He hated every false way. The way of sin being directly contrary to God’s precepts, which are right, is a false way, and therefore those that have a love and esteem for God’s law hate it and will not be reconciled to it.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
127. And therefore I have loved thy statutes above gold. This verse, I have no doubt, is connected with the preceding; for otherwise the illative particle therefore would be without meaning. Viewing it in this connection, I understand the Psalmist as intimating, that the reason why he esteemed God’s law as more valuable than gold and precious stones, was because he had fixed in his mind a thorough persuasion of the truth, that although God may connive for a time at wickedness, the making havoc of all uprightness and equity will not always remain unpunished. Yea, the more he saw the wicked outrageously breaking forth into wickedness, the more was he incited by a holy indignation burning in his heart, to love the law. This is a passage deserving of special attention, for the baneful influence of evil example is well known, every man thinking that he may lawfully do whatever is commonly practiced around him. Whence it comes to pass, that evil company carries us away like a tempest. The more diligently then ought we to meditate on this doctrine, That when the wicked claim to themselves an unbridled liberty, it behoves us to contemplate with the eyes of faith the judgments of God, in order to our being thereby quickened to the observance of the divine law. If attention to this doctrine has been needful from the beginning, at the present day it is necessary to exert ourselves, that we may not be involved in violating the law of God with the wicked conspiracy which almost the whole world have formed to violate it. The more outrageously the wicked vaunt themselves, let our veneration for and our love of the divine law proportionally increase.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Psa 119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Ver. 127. Therefore I love thy commandments ] I like them the better because they slight them, and prize that way the more they persecute. I kindle myself from their coldness, and while they greedily grasp after gold, and fine gold, I lay hold upon eternal life, 1Ti 6:10-12 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
I love: Psa 119:72, Psa 19:10, Pro 3:13-18, Pro 8:11, Pro 16:16, Mat 13:45, Mat 13:46, Eph 3:8
Reciprocal: Deu 4:8 – General Neh 8:12 – because Neh 9:13 – gavest Job 23:12 – I have esteemed Psa 19:7 – law Psa 104:34 – meditation Psa 111:8 – are done Psa 119:14 – rejoiced Psa 119:47 – which Psa 119:97 – O how Psa 119:111 – Thy testimonies Pro 2:4 – thou Pro 8:10 – General Pro 23:23 – Buy Luk 8:15 – keep Luk 18:30 – manifold more Rom 7:12 – the law Rom 7:16 – I consent Rom 7:22 – I delight 2Co 3:7 – was 1Ti 1:8 – the law 1Jo 5:3 – and