Verse 37
37. Perfect… upright Strong words expressive of completeness of character by the measurements of the law of God. It is not the ideal perfect man, but the real, living man, (for such still existed,) to which attention is called.
The end of that man is peace The “end,” here, must take the eschatological sense of the final result, and implies a final judgment and award by the unerring Lawgiver and Judge. It was the fact that this present life did not, by its rewards or punishments, make the difference between the righteous and the wicked complete, that stumbled the feeble faith. The prosperity of the wicked was often lifelong. So with the sufferings of the righteous. Here was the exact point of the difficulty. The psalmist, therefore, does not appeal to the events of this life in vindication of God’s ways, but to the “end” of things, and to the final awards. No New Testament doctrine is clearer.
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