...men. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain." — Psalm Ixxxiii. I3ut he afterwards adds, " I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end. Surely Tlfou didst set them in slippery places : Thou castedst them down into destruction. How are...

...thoughts, that would ere long burst out into words, if not into actions, have been met and repelled : — " When I thought to know this, it was too painful for...the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end." When evil has not been brooding over the mind, still the restraining influence of ordinances has been...

...understanding was opened in the sanctuary ; for viewing these things without regard to the end, he says, " When I thought to know this, it was too painful for...the sanctuary of God: then understood I their end." This gave him a very different prospect of the matter, and now he proceeds, " Surely thou didst set...

...understanding was opened in the sanctuary ; for viewing these things without regard to the end, he says, " When I thought to know this, it was too painful for...I went into the sanctuary of God: then understood / their end." This gave him a very different prospect of the matter, and now he proceeds, " Surely...

...sanctuary. 1 recommend to their perusal the Ixxiiid Psalrn, especially these two verses of it (16, 17) : " When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God." It remains for the complete interpretation of the matters of this seal, that I should explain these...

...say, I will speak thus, I should offend against the generation of thy children. ..When I thought lo know this, it was too painful for me; until I went into the sanctuary of God. Then understood 1 their end." In like manner David had been taught in God's sanctuary, and by God's Spirit, the superior...

...prescription, ' I was,' saith he, ' envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked — until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end ; surely thou didst set them in slippery places — How are they brought into desolation as in a moment...

...have condemned the generation of thy children. Then thought I to understand this; but it was too hard for me ; Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I the end of these men. Truly thou dost set them in slippery places, and easiest them down, and destroyest...

...washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning, &c. When I thought to know this it was too painful for...the sanctuary of God : then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places ; thou castedst them down into destruction as in a moment,"...

...meridian sun.] f See Ps. cvi. 4, 5. DCXXIV. PROSPERITY OF SINNERS NOT TO BE ENVIED. Ps. Ixxiii. 16, 17. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me ; until 1 went into the sanctuary of God : then understood I their end. TO unenlightened man, there are numberless...