delighting in the law of the Lord, we may learn that forced or servile obedience is not at all acceptable to God, and that only those are worthy students of the law who come to it with a cheerful heart and are so delighted with its instructions as to account nothing more desirable or delicious than to make progress therein. From this love of the law flows their constant meditation, which the prophet mentions in the last clause of the verse. For you cannot feel pleasure in the diligent study of the