...myself to the search of such arguments ; and I found them, but found not that relief I expected : " When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me." For 1. The most convincing and forcible of those arguments, proceeding upon the absurdity of the contrary...

...this observation upon ver. 3. which I shall leave to every honest and wise heart to consider; and pass on to ver. 16. ' When I thought to know this, it was...reading, ' It was labour in mine ' eyes.' Now what can be understood by this plain Hebrew reading, but that it was painful or grievous to behold? — And...

...have been composed by As-iph on the destruction of the Assyrian army under Sennacherib. 362 A. c. 710. 16 When I thought to know this, * it was too painful for ~™ J| [Q * i«t«ir*iJ!*!« 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end....

...seen. Not of their quiet and enjoyment ; for that he had witnessed. But he was ignorant of their end. "When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end." Here then was the additional...

...walketh through the earth. And they say, How doth God know ? and is there knowledge in the Most High ? When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me. Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end."* Now although this description...

...to be imminent. The psalmist goes on to remark, in reference to this their present prosperity, — " When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me ; until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in...

...let them know that God ruleth in Jacob, unto the ends of the earth. Selah. — Ps. lix. 13. xcix. 8. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God : then understood I their end, &c. So foolish was I, and ignorant:...

...certain my fall, without supernatural aid ? " Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me." But surely! " the only wise God," must have a design in such trials; a design worthy of himself; since...

...Ixxx. 8 — 11. Who changed the truth of God into a Jie. Rom. i. 25. The ungodly prosper in the world. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me : until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end. Ps.lxxiii. 12. 16, 17. For,...

...when he contrasted his own wretchedness with the riches anu" power of the Lord's enemies, exclaimed, " When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me:" Ps. Ixxiii, 16. Yet, when he went "into the sanctuary of God" — when he humbled himself before the...