gratifies the taste, but aids the judgment, and ministers to the hunger of the spirit.”5 Consequently, the 119th Psalm has been rightly classified as a “giant among the Psalms.”6 Delitzsch commends the heading placed before it in the German Bible: “In our German version it has the appropriate inscription, ‘The Christian’s golden ABC of the praise, love, power, and use of the word of God’; for here we have set forth in inexhaustible fullness what the word of God is to a man, and how a man is to behave
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