John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 73:27
For, lo, they that are far from thee ,.... Who are alienated from the life of God, far from the law of God, and subjection and obedience to it; and from righteousness either moral or evangelical, and from the love and fear of God, and worship of him: shall perish ; not merely at death, as even righteous men do, but be lost eternally: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee ; that follow after other gods, and worship them; which is spiritual adultery and fornication,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 73:21-28
Behold Samson's riddle again unriddled, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness; for we have here an account of the good improvement which the psalmist made of that sore temptation with which he had been assaulted and by which he was almost overcome. He that stumbles and does not fall, by recovering himself takes so much the longer steps forward. It was so with the psalmist here; many good lessons he learned from his temptation, his struggles with it, and his... read more