29, 30<\/strong>. The way of falsehood (cp. 104, 128), all conduct that is not governed by God’s truth, is contrasted with the way of faithfulness, of loyalty to Him. Though he has made the great choice, and set before himself (Psa 16:8<\/span>) the declarations of God’s Will as the rule of his life, he prays that God will keep him from disloyalty, and that for this end He will graciously impart to him fresh instruction in His law.<\/p>\n Remove from me – <\/B>Take it from me; cause it to depart; let me not be under its influence or power.<\/P> The way of lying – <\/B>Every false, deceitful, hypocritical way. We are not to suppose that the psalmist was addicted to lying, but that he felt he was, like all people, in danger of acting from false views, from wrong motives, or under the influence of delusion and deceit. It is a prayer that he might always be sincere and truthful. No man who knows his own heart can doubt the propriety of this prayer. On nothing does a man need more to examine himself; in nothing does he more need the grace of God, than that he may be sincere.<\/P> And grant me thy law graciously – <\/B>The knowledge of thy law; grace to obey thy law. The single word rendered grant graciously is a word which implies the idea of mercy or favor. It was not a thing which he claimed as a right; it was that for which he was dependent on the mercy of God.<\/P> <\/p>\n Psa 119:29<\/span><\/p>\n Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me Thy law graciously.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Lying<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Fear.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Vanity.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Greed.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>Ambition.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Popular. How rare are true men in this world of shams!<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Dangerous. It is inimical to moral health, beset with perils, and leading to moral ruin. (Homilist.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n But had not David the law already?<\/strong><\/p>\n No doubt he wanted not the Book of the Law: he heard it, he read it, he professed it; yea, someway he understood it. What, then, is it he craves? Surely, that the law might be so imprinted in his heart, that it might abolish that natural vanity, and deceit of sin, which carrieth him to the offence of God. A necessary petition for these days; wherein the knowledge of the Word is exceeding great, but the zeal, spiritual life, and feeling of the hearts of men is not answerable unto it. They think all is welt, in that publicly they profess it. They hear it with their ears; they speak of it with their mouths; they read it in their books finely bound; though in that duty many fail also. But certainly when they think they have it, they want it; so long as it is not printed in the table of their heart, to frame their motions, affections and actions conformable to it. And this is it which David here craves. (Bishop Cowper.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 29<\/span>. The way of lying<\/B><\/I>] The propensity to falsity<\/I> and prevarication<\/I>, whatsoever is contrary to truth<\/I>. Remove me<\/I> from its solicitations, and remove<\/I> it from me<\/I>. “Grant me thy law graciously;” give it to me as a rule of moral conduct; but give it to me graciously through the Gospel<\/I>; and then it will not be the letter that killeth, but will be sanctified to me, so as to become to me holy, just, and GOOD.<\/P> <\/p>\n The way of lying; <\/B>or, of falsehood<\/I>; either, <\/P> 1. The practice of lying, and dissembling, and cheating, which is so rife in Sauls court, and in the courts of most princes; but, Lord, let it not be so in my courts. Or rather, <\/P> 2. Every false way of doctrine or worship; for to this way he opposeth Gods law in the next clause. And he justly prayeth to God to keep him from apostacy, heresy, idolatry, and superstition, because his own corrupt nature of itself and without Gods grace was prone to these errors, and not only heathens, but many Israelites, did frequently fall into them. <\/P> Grant me thy law graciously; <\/B>vouchsafe unto me an accurate knowledge and firm belief of thy word, and that I may constantly attend and adhere to it, and govern myself by it in all things. <\/P> <\/p>\n Remove from me the way of lying<\/strong>,…. Not the sin of lying to men, and a course of it, which David was not addicted to; but a “false way”, or “way of falsehood” b; as it may be rendered, and so the Targum; and is the same with what he expresses his abhorrence of,<\/p>\n Ps 119:128<\/span>; and is opposed to the way of truth in Ps 119:30<\/span>; and designs all false doctrine and false worship, all errors and heresies, superstition and idolatry; which he desired to be at the utmost distance from, and those from him, as having a dislike and abhorrence of them; and as knowing how prejudicial they would be to him, and how contrary to the glory of God;<\/p>\n and grant me thy law graciously<\/strong>; not the fiery law, which works wrath, curses and condemns; the voice of words, which they that heard entreated they might hear no more; and which to have is no act of grace and favour, unless as fulfilled in Christ, and as it is a rule of walk and conversation in his hands: but rather “doctrine”, as the word signifies; the doctrine of the Gospel, the law or doctrine of faith; which to have and understand is a gift of grace; it is the Gospel of the grace of God, the grace of God itself; and instructs in it, and shows that salvation is purely by it.<\/p>\n b “viam falsitatis”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.<\/p>\n 29. Take away from me the way of falsehood. Knowing how prone the nature of man is to vanity and falsehood, he first asks the sanctification of his thoughts, lest, being entangled by the snares of Satan, he fall into error. Next, that he may be kept from falsehood, he prays to be fortified with the doctrine of the law. The second clause of the verse is interpreted variously. Some render it, make thy law pleasant to me. And as the law is disagreeable to the flesh, which it subdues and keeps under, there is good cause why God should be asked to render it acceptable and pleasant to us. Some expound it, have mercy upon me according to thy law as if the prophet should draw pity from the fountain-head itself, because God in his law promised it to the faithful. Both of these meanings appear to me forced; and, therefore, I am more disposed to adopt another, freely grant to me thy law. The original term, חנני channeni, cannot be translated otherwise in Latin than, gratify thou me; an uncouth and barbarous expression I admit, yet that will give me: little concern, provided my readers comprehend the prophet’s meaning. (411) The amount is, that being full of blindness, nothing is more easy than for us to be greatly deceived by error. And, therefor unless God teach us by the Spirit of wisdom, we will presently be hurried away into various errors. The means of our being preserved from error are stated to consist in his instructing us in his law. He makes use of the term to gratify. “It is indeed an incomparable kindness that men are directed by thy law, but in consequence of thy kindness being unmerited, I have no hesitation in asking of thee to admit me as a participator of this thy kindness.” If the prophet, who for some time previous served God, in now aspiring after farther attainments, does not ask for a larger measure of grace to be communicated to him meritoriously, but confesses it to be the free gift of God, then that impious tenet, which obtains in the papacy, that an increase of grace is awarded to merit as deserving of it, must fall to the ground. <\/p>\n (411) “ On pourroit dire en francois, Donne moy gratuitement.” — Fr. “One can say in French, Give me gratuitously.” <\/p>\n (29) Way of lying.<\/strong>Not of falsehood to men so much as insincerity and unfaithfulness towards God, the opposite of the truth and faithfulness of Psa. 119:30<\/span>.<\/p>\n Grant me.<\/strong>Rather, be gracious to me according to thy law. <\/em>This is the persistent cry of the psalm.<\/p>\n Psa 119:29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.<\/p>\n Ver. 29. Remove from me the way of lying<\/strong> ] A sin that David, through diffidence, fell into frequently. See 1Sa 21:2 ; 1Sa 21:8<\/span> , where he roundly telleth three or four lies; and the like he did, 1Sa 27:8 ; 1Sa 27:10<\/span> : this evil he saw by himself, and here prayeth against it. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And grant me thy law<\/strong> ] For a preservative from this foul sin; herein gratify me, good Lord.<\/p>\n Remove: Psa 119:37, Psa 119:104, Psa 119:128, Psa 119:163, Psa 141:3, Psa 141:4, Pro 30:8, Isa 44:20, Jer 16:19, Jon 2:8, Eph 4:22-25, 1Jo 1:8, 1Jo 2:4, Rev 22:15 <\/p>\n grant me: Psa 119:5, Jer 31:33, Jer 31:34, Heb 8:10, Heb 8:11 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Sa 21:2 – The king 1Sa 27:10 – And David Psa 119:30 – chosen Psa 119:118 – their deceit Psa 119:125 – that I Eph 4:25 – putting<\/p>\n Psa 119:29-30. Remove from me the way of lying Hebrew, , dereech sheker, the way of falsehood or deceit, of guile or dissimulation. Let me neither practise it myself, nor countenance, nor be deceived by it in others. The LXX. render it, , the way of unrighteousness. It is plain, says Dr. Horne, that the way of truth, in the latter of these two verses, is opposed to the way of lying, or of falsehood, in the former. The one comprehends every thing in doctrine and practice that is right, and therefore true; the other denotes every thing which is wrong, and therefore false. Of these two ways man hath his choice. God points out to him the former by his word, and offers to conduct him in it by his Spirit. Satan shows him the latter, and endeavours to seduce him into it by his temptations. The psalmist declares himself to have chosen Gods way, and to have laid the Scriptures before him, as the chart by which to direct his course. He therefore prays that the other way may be far removed from him; and that God would vouchsafe him such thorough acquaintance with the way of truth as might prevent him from ever wandering into the path of error. How much depends upon the road we choose! How difficult is it, in a divided and distracted world, to choose aright! Yet this choice, so important, so difficult, frequently remains to be made by us, when we have neither judgment to choose, nor strength to travel! <\/p>\n 119:29 Remove from me the {d} way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.<\/p>\n (d) Instruct me in your word, by which my mind may be purged from vanity and taught to obey your will.<\/p>\n Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. 29, 30. The way of falsehood (cp. 104, 128), all conduct that is not governed by God’s truth, is contrasted with the way of faithfulness, of loyalty to Him. Though he has made the great choice, and set before himself (Psa 16:8) … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 119:29”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I. <\/strong>The faculty of lying. Man has a faculty for misrepresenting facts and for deceiving men. The mere possession of this faculty is not necessarily wrong; all depends upon the motives that inspire it, and the uses to which it is directed.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>The professity of lying. Most venal lies spring from the following wrong states of heart.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>The habit of lying.<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"