Verse 4
4. One thing have I desired One thing, as being the chief and ultimate good the comprehensive unity in which all things else are included.
House of the Lord The house or place of worship was now a tent, although it is, in this and the following verses, called house, temple, and tent.
All the days of my life This is not to be taken literally, but as of spirit and fellowship, and as a constant habit of sanctuary worship.
To behold the beauty of the Lord “Beauty,” here, has the sense of grace, excellence, especially redeeming grace. See Psalms 90:17. The sense is the same as Psalms 63:2: “As I have seen thee in the sanctuary” a spiritual discernment of God in his manifold grace to man. The original is peculiar. Construing the verb with the preposition ב , ( be,) it means to look upon, or into, the “beauty” or grace of Jehovah. The meditation on the moral import of the forms and symbols of the sanctuary and of sanctuary worship is not to be excluded. See in Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 9:2; Hebrews 11:23-24. These led him up to God. He saw and communed with God through them.
Inquire in his temple That is, to seek the knowledge of God only through the forms and methods which he has ordained, namely, by sacrifice, prayer, and asking counsel of the priest or prophet. See Deuteronomy 17:8-10
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