might go well with him, and would not feel sorrow if it went ill with him. But he, who speaks in this Psalm with a voice from heavean, beats down and condemns everything which the thoughts of men might excogitate and devise, and brings forth the only true description of blessedness, of which the whole world knows nothing, declaring that he only is blessed and prosperous whose love and desire are directed to the law of the Lord. This is a short description, one too that goes against all sense and