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Selected Verse: Psalms 103:12 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 103:12 |
King James |
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| removed . . . from us--so as no longer to affect our relations to Him. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
As far as the east is from the west - As far as possible; as far as we can imagine. These are the points in our apprehension most distant from each other, and as we can conceive nothing beyond them, so the meaning is, that we cannot imagine our sins could be more effectually removed than they are. The literal meaning of the Hebrew is, "like the distance of the east from the west" or, "like its being far."
So far hath he removed our transgressions from us - That is, he has put them entirely away. They are so removed that they cannot affect us any more. We are safe from all condemnation for our sins, as if they had not been committed at all. Compare the notes at Isa 43:25; notes at Isa 44:22. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
Removed our transgression from us
Three Hebrew words are translated, forgive, forgiven: kaphar, to cover; nasa, to lift away; salach, to send away (cf). (Lev 16:21); (Lev 16:22) the fundamental Old Testament idea of forgiveness being not the remission of penalty, but the separation of the sinner from his sin.
(Psa 103:12) expresses this. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| As far as the east is from the west - As the east and the west can never meet in one point, but be for ever at the same distance from each other, so our sins and their decreed punishment are removed to an eternal distance by his mercy. |
22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: