Psalm 119:160 Your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your righteous judgments endures for ever. (R.V.): — That is to say, the total of it; in other words, it amounts to truth; in varied phrase it brings together all the elements that are necessary to constitute the sum-total of moral and spiritual truth; or, in still varied words, without it we should have parts of truth, little glimmerings and aspects of truth; but having Thy Word, we have Truth. Who translated that Word so? He who offered the intercessory prayer with Gethsemane in front of Him, with the shadow of Golgotha already falling upon His beautiful, but marred, face. Said he, "Thy Word is truth"; sanctify them by Thy Word; make them holy; complete them; set them apart to consecration by Thy Word. "Thy Word is truth." Thus the voices join. What wonder if He who thus spake should, a few days afterwards, have begun at Moses and the Psalms, and expounded to wondering, saddened hearts all the things concerning Himself! The psalmist had said: "The sum of Thy Word is truth"; and He, greater Psalmist, with the blood-sweat soon to ooze from His bent brow and face, had said in prayer to God, "Thy Word is truth." Thus age speaks to age, as "star unto star speaks light." (J. Parker, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.WEB: All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. SIN AND SHIN |
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