who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
PSALM 15. This psalm teaches us upon what condition God made choice of the Jews to be his people, and placed his sanctuary in the midst of them. This condition was, that they should show themselves to be a peculiar and holy people, by leading a just and upright life. A Song of David. Psalm 15:1-2 1. O Jehovah, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle?
Commenting on Psalm 15:1-5
After the positive comes the negative. "He that backbiteth not with his tongue." There is a sinful way of backbiting with the heart when we think too hardly of a neighbour, but it is the tongue which does the mischief. Some men's tongues bite more than their teeth.
Here is, I. A very serious and weighty question concerning the characters of a citizen of Zion (Psa 15:1): "Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Let me know who shall go to heaven." Not, who by name (in this way the Lord only knows those that are his), but who by description: "What kind of people are those whom thou wilt own and crown...
Commenting on Psalm 15:1-5