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Selected Verse: Psalms 119:130 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 119:130 |
King James |
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
The entrance--literally, "opening"; God's words, as an open door, let in light, or knowledge. Rather, as HENGSTENBERG explains it, "The opening up," or, "explanation of thy word." To the natural man the doors of God's Word are shut. Luk 24:27, Luk 24:31; Act 17:3; Eph 1:18, confirm this view, "opening (that is, explaining) and alleging," &c.
unto the simple--those needing or desiring it (compare Psa 19:7). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The entrance of thy words giveth light - The Septuagint translates this, "the manifestation (or declaration) - ἡ δήλωσις hē dēlōsis - of thy words enlightens." So the Vulgate. Luther renders it, "When thy word is revealed, so it delivers us, and makes the simple wise." DeWette, "The opening (revelation) of thy word," etc. The Hebrew word - פתח pethach - means an "opening" or "entrance" - as of a gate, Jos 20:4; Jdg 9:35; and then "a door," as of a tent or the temple, Gen 18:1; Kg1 6:8; or the gate of a city, Isa 3:26; and then it means opening, insight, instruction. The word as used here seems to denote the opening or unfolding of the word of God; the revelation of that word to the mind. A door is open so that we enter into a house; a gate, so that we enter into a city; and thus the meaning of the word of God is "opened" to us, so that we may, as it were, enter in and see its beauty. The language does not, therefore, denote the entrance of that word into the mind, but, its being made open to us so that we may perceive its beauty, or may ourselves "enter" into its meaning, its mysteries, and its beauties.
It giveth understanding unto the simple - The word rendered "simple" literally means "those who are open to persuasion," or who are easily enticed or seduced. Then it refers to the credulous, Pro 14:15, and then to the "inexperienced." See Psa 19:7, note; Psa 116:6, note. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The entrance of thy words giveth light - פתח pethach, the opening of it: when I open my Bible to read, light springs up in my mind. Every sermon, every prayer, every act of faith, is an opening by which light is let into the seeking soul. |
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.
4 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.