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I. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ARE GOD'S WRITING.

II. THE SUBJECTS OF WHICH THE HOLY SCRIPTURES TREAT ARE GREAT THINGS. The things written in the Scriptures may well be styled great things.

1. Because of their inherent grandeur. Can there possibly be any greater subject than God Himself in His character, in His infinite excellence, and in His relations to men, God as incarnated and revealed in the person of His Son Jesus Christ? Can any themes exceed in interest, atonement for sin, redemption, the indwelling Spirit, immortal life, resurrection, heaven?

2. Because of their supreme importance. They have been given mainly for the purpose of answering those great questions which had perplexed the minds of men from the beginning of human history, and which weighed heavily upon their hearts and consciences the more they thought about them.

3. Because of their great effects. They make all those great who lovingly receive them into their hearts. And much of what the Word of God does for individuals it also does for nations. It introduces into them the germs of solid prosperity and the elements of true greatness. It makes a people righteous, temperate, pure, unselfish, benevolent.

III. EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS A PERSONAL INTEREST IN THE CONTENTS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. They have been written for all, in the sense of having been written for each individual in that all. I have written unto him. This "I have written" arms every part of the sacred Book with all the authority of God.

IV. AND YET, HOW MANY TREAT THE "GREAT THINGS" WHICH GOD HAS WRITTEN IN HIS WORD IN THE VERY MANNER WHICH IS HERE CONDEMNED! They were counted by them as a strange thing; that is, with indifference, with looks askance, as things with which they had no practical concern, perhaps even with positive aversion.

(Homiletic Magazine.)

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KJV: I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

WEB: I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.