OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 18:10

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He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

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Verse 10. Fear; or “the law accompanied with fear;” of which he is speaking. This fear is filial and pure, such as a child must have of displeasing his father. Bert.—Yet even servile fear, which restrains us from committing sin, lest we incur punishment, is a gift of God, and prepares the way for charity. Trid. Sess. xiv. 4. But we must not stop here, like Achab and Antiochus. If we understand by fear, the moral law, it will subsist as long as there shall be men.—Themselves. Septuagint επι το ωτο, “by that very thing,” that they are the judgments of the Lord, ( Bible.) who cannot do wrong. Daniel 2:27. Calmet.—Hebrew “truth itself, is justified altogether.” Bible.—Infidels acknowledge that the morality of the Gospel is excellent, but they reject the dogmatical part. Would He, who has prescribed such noble rules of conduct, lead our understanding astray, by requiring us to believe what is false? Bert.

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