but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Mark how the Psalms opens with a benediction, just as our Lord's Sermon on the Mount does. The word blessed here is plural, O, the blessednesses!, speaking to the manifold riches of grace God pours upon the justified man who refuses the counsel of the wicked and stands apart in the congregation of the righteous.
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Commenting on Psalm 1:1
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,.... Not the law of nature, which was inscribed on Adam's heart in innocence, but now greatly impaired by sin, and become very imperfect and very insufficient to make men happy, or to lead them to true felicity; nor the law of Moses, which is a fiery law, and works wrath, accuses of sin, pronounces guilty...
A godly man begins by renouncing the companionship of evil-doers, for departing from evil is where wisdom starts. Men do not leap at once into the depths of wickedness; they descend by steps, first ungodly, then sinners, then scorners, and the righteous must see evil on every side and utterly refuse its counsel.
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Commenting on Psalm 1:1-3