meaning of aleph in psalm 119

0000050120 00000 n %PDF-1.4 %���� According to the Midrash, in Psalm 118:26 it is the people of Jerusalem who thus greet the pilgrims. "Blessed." He is able now to plead for more distant salvation and prosperity with all the more fervent confidence. On the ground of the fact that Jahve has proved Himself to be אל, the absolutely mighty One, by having granted light to His people, viz., loving-kindness, liberty, and joy, there then issues forth the ejaculation, "Bind the sacrifice," etc. The many animals for sacrifice which they brought with them are enumerated in Ezra 6:17. [Psalms 119:1] BLESSED ARE THE 0000003071 00000 n Prayer and praise and all sorts of devotional acts and feelings gleam through the verses like beams of sunlight through an olive grove. (Note: In the language of the Jewish ritual Isru-chag is become the name of the after-feast day which follows the last day of the feast. In v. 28 (cf. Click Here to view our publications. http://britam.org/Broadcasts/newBAMBI/psalm119-1.mp3. 8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. Each stanza contains eight verses, and the first letter of each verse is that which gives name to the stanza. 0000001315 00000 n And there are very few of these 176 verses contained in this Psalm, in which one or other of these titles is not found. In order that they might not run away?! In the way; either, 1. O that every reader may feel the glow. Verse 119:7 begins with the Hebrew word "Aoydecha" whose first letter is "Aleph" and which is translated as I WILL PRAISE THEE. You are not only instructed, but influenced to holy emotion, and helped to express the same. 0000003977 00000 n Exodus 15:2) the festal procession replies in accordance with the character of the feast, and then the Psalm closes, in correspondence with its beginning, with a Hodu in which all voices join.

And because this Psalm was very large, and the matter of it of greatest importance, the psalmist thought fit to divide it into two and twenty several parts, according to the number of the Hebrew letters, that so he might both prevent tediousness, and fix it in the memory. The Psalm does not appear to have any relation to any special occasion or interest of the Jewish Church or nation, but was evidently "intended as a manual of pious thoughts, especially for instructing the young, and its peculiar artificial structure was probably adopted to aid the memory in retaining the language.". UPRIGHTNESS OF HEART, WHEN I SHALL HAVE LEARNED THY  RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTS. Click Here to make an offering. 154 23 The words "unto (as far as) the horns of the altar" have the principal accent. Blessed are the undefiled in the way,.... Who are in the right way to heaven and happiness, which is Jesus Christ; the strait gate, and narrow way to eternal life; the only true way of life and salvation, in which way believers walk by faith. 03/09/12: Psalm 119: Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, He Psalm 119 The longest chapter of the Bible. 0000001646 00000 n Further, if what is meant is Israel's own despising of the small beginning of a new ear that is dawning, it is then better explained as in connection with the reference of the declaration to Jesus the Christ in Matthew 21:42-44; Mark 12:10., Acts 4:11 (ὑφ ̓ ὑμῶν τῶν οἰκοδομούντων), 1 Peter 2:7, the builders are the chiefs and members of Israel itself, and not the heathen. 0000000016 00000 n We not only judge the keeping of God's law to be a wise and proper thing, but we are warmly enamoured of its holiness, and cry out in adoring wonder, "Blessed are the undefiled!" (Ps 119:1-8). x�bbb`b``Ń3Υ�� �4 Psalm 119 is a famous example, written with 8 verses for each of the Hebrew consonants in order, so verses 1-8 each have a first word beginning with 'aleph and verses 9-16 each have a first word beginning with beth, and so on. The first eight verses all begin with the letter Aleph. Way.—See the same use without a qualifying epithet in Psalm 2:12. continued...THE ARGUMENT The author of this Psalm was David; which I know none that deny, and of which there is no just reason to doubt. The subject is treated in a devout manner rather than in a didactic style. To Hear a Talk based on the Text below: Your benefit and wellbeing are goals of ours and worthwhile to us in themselves. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

0000006558 00000 n 1. undefiled—literally, "complete," perfect, or sincere (compare Ps 37:37). walk—act in the law—according to it (compare Lu 1:6).

law, statutes, precepts or commandments, judgments, ordinances, righteousness, testimonies, way, and word, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. After this watchword of prayer of the thanksgiving feast, in Psalm 118:26 those who receive them bless those who are coming (הבּא with Dech) in the name of Jahve, i.e., bid them welcome in His name. ��FN�o�����]W849?0ax��8��!��9�D#?c�(�fZ) �E�2�C����# |��p�$΃�D* �F� The Psalmist is so enraptured with the word of God that he regards it as his highest ideal of blessedness to be conformed to it. From 1 Peter 2:6; Romans 9:33, we see how this reference to Christ is brought about, viz., by means of Isaiah 28:16, where Jahve says: Behold I am He who hath laid in Zion a stone, a stone of trial, a precious corner-stone of well-founded founding - whoever believeth shall not totter. law—from a …

It is further observable that the word of God is here diversely called by the names of law, statutes, precepts or commandments, judgments, ordinances, righteousness, testimonies, way, and word; by which variety he designed to express the nature and the great perfection and manifold parts and uses of God’s word: which is called his word, as proceeding from his mouth, and revealed by him to us; his way, as prescribed by him for us to walk in; his law, as binding us to obedience, his statutes, as declaring his authority and power of giving us laws, his precepts, as declaring and directing our duty; his ordinances, as ordained and appointed by him; his righteousness, as exactly agreeable to God’s righteous nature and will; his judgments, as proceeding from the great Judge of the world, and being his judicial sentence to which all men must submit; and his testimonies, as it contains the witnesses of God’s mind and will, and of man’s duty. אנּא (six times אנּה) is, as in every other instance (vid., on Psalm 116:4), Milra. THEY WALK IN HIS WAYS. 0000007047 00000 n To the horns?! 3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. The lxx renders συστήσασθε ἑορτὴν ἐν τοῖς πυκάζουσιν, which is reproduced by the Psalterium Romanum: constituite diem solemnem in confrequentationibus, as Eusebius, Theodoret, and Chrysostom (although the last waveringly) also interpret it; on the other hand, it is rendered by the psalterium Gallicum: in condensis, as Apollinaris and Jerome (in frondosis) also understand it.

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