* 1. [Verse 1] Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly. The blessing applies to our Lord Jesus Christ, homo dominicus, the Man of the Lord.1 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, as did the man of earth2 whose wife the serpent beguiled; her husband agreed to her proposal and ignored God’s command.3 Nor stood in the way of sinners. It is true that our Lord came by the way of sinners: He was born as sinners are; but He