Verse 2
2. The writer advances from negative to positive statements.
But In the Hebrew two particles stand here as a double disjunctive, as but, on the contrary, as if to prepare for the strongest possible contrast.
Delight Not obedience only, but the joy of loving obedience. Duty and pleasure unite. Delight in the law of God springs only from a pure heart.
Law To be taken here in the restricted sense of precept, rather than the general sense of doctrine, yet as implying the latter, for every truth of God comes to us with a preceptive claim upon our faith and obedience.
Meditate That which engrosses the affections will occupy the thoughts.
Day… night Continually; through hours of labour and of rest.
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