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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 119:100
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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I understand more than the ancients, etc.] Than those that had lived in ages before him; having clearer light given him, and larger discoveries made unto him, concerning the Messiah, his person and offices particularly, as it was usual for the Lord to do; or than aged men in his own time: for though wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, may be reasonably supposed to be with ancient men; who have had a long experience of things, and have had time and opportunity of making their observations, and of laying up a stock of knowledge; and this may be expected from them, and they may be applied to for it; yet this is not always the case; a younger man, as David was, may be endued with more knowledge and understanding than such; so Elihu; (see <180808>Job 8:8-10 12:12) (<183206>Job 32:6,7,9). Or, “I have got understanding by the ancients”; so Kimchi; though the other sense seems preferable; because I keep thy precepts; keep close to the word; attend to the reading of it, and meditation on it; keep it in mind and memory, and observe to do the commands of it; and by that means obtained a good understanding, even a better one than the ancients; especially than they that were without it, or did not carefully attend unto it; (see <19B110>Psalm 111:10).
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