PSALMS 119:105 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. The law provides guidance ('lamp to my feet,' 'light to my path'), illuminating the way forward. This verse employs light-imagery to suggest the law's directive function.
Church Fathers on Psalms 119:105
1. From its commencement, dearly beloved, does this great Psalm exhort us unto bliss, which there is no one who desires not....And therefore this is the lesson which he teaches, who says, “Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord” Psalm 118:1. As much as to say, I know what you wish, you are seeking bliss: if then you would be blessed, be undefiled. For the former all desire, the latter fear: yet without it what all wish cannot be…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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