I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
PSALM 49 The wicked and the votaries of worldly pleasure often enjoy prosperity, while such as fear the Lord are exposed to affliction, and disposed to faint under the pressure of it. To moderate that pride which the one class is apt to feel in the midst of their success, and administer a check to the despondency of the other, the Psalmist shows what little...
Commenting on Psalm 49:1-20
In these four verses the poet prophet calls universal humanity to listen to his didactic hymn.
Commenting on Psalm 49:1
I will incline mine ear to a parable. He who would have others hear, begins by hearing himself. As the minstrel leans his ear to his harp, so must the preacher give his whole soul to his ministry. The truth came to the psalmist as a parable, and he endeavoured to unriddle it for popular use; he would not leave the truth in obscurity, but...