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MEM<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
\n

97\u00a0<\/sup>Oh, how I love Your law!<\/span><\/em>
\nIt is my meditation all the day.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

98 <\/sup>You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies;<\/span><\/em>
\nFor they are ever with me.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

99 <\/sup>I have more understanding than all my teachers,<\/span><\/em>
\nFor Your testimonies are my meditation.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

100 <\/sup>I understand more than the ancients,<\/span><\/em>
\nBecause I keep Your precepts.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

101 <\/sup>I have restrained my feet from every evil way,<\/span><\/em>
\nThat I may keep Your word.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

102 <\/sup>I have not departed from Your judgments,<\/span><\/em>
\nFor You Yourself have taught me.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

103 <\/sup>How sweet are Your words to my taste,<\/span><\/em>
\nSweeter than honey to my mouth!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

104 <\/sup>Through Your precepts I get understanding;<\/span><\/em>
\nTherefore I hate every false way.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

The theme of this stanza seems to be the wisdom gained from a knowledge of Scripture\u2014and not just wisdom as such, but with it the ability to make wise decisions.<\/h3>\n

Messiah here joyfully exclaims how sweet to His palate (v.103), and how precious to His heart (v.97), was the Law of God; and that through its study He was wiser than His enemies (v.98), wiser than His teachers (v.99), and wiser than His elders (v.100). Compare Luke 2:46-47.<\/span><\/h3>\n

He also declares that the Word instructed Him as to the moral character of every course of conduct (v.101), and taught Him so effectively that He did not swerve from any path approved by the Divine judgment (v.102); and the stanza closes with the statement that the wisdom which flows from the Scriptures destroys all desire to for false teaching (v.104). \u2014 Williams, page 395.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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