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A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm
A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm wherein the nature of the forgiveness of sin is declared, the truth and reality of it asserted, and the case of a soul distressed with the guilt of sin and relieved by a discovery of forgiveness with God is at large discoursed / by John Owen.
London: printed by Robert White for Nathaniel Ponder, 1669
AN EXPOSITION UPON PSALM CXXX. › General Scope of the whole Psalm. › Verses 5, 6: Verse 5, 6.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. My soul doth wait or expect; it is no outward duty that ⟨p. 360⟩I am at, no lip-labour, no bodily work, no formal cold careless performance of a duty; no, my soul doth wait: it is soul work, heart work I am at; I wait, I wait with my whole soul.
4. In his word do I hope: or wait. There is not anything of difficulty in these words; the word used [Greek or Hebrew] is from [Greek or Hebrew] sunt qui quod affive sit verbo [Greek or Hebrew] velint anxietatem & nisum includere, ut significet anxie, seu enixe expectare, sustinere, & sperare; It signifies to hope, expect, endure, and sustain, with care, solicitousness, and endeavours. Hence the 70 have rendered the word by [Greek or Hebrew] and the Vul. Lat. Sustinui. I have sustained and waited with patience.
4. In his word do I hope: or wait. There is not anything of difficulty in these words; the word used 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is from 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 sunt qui quod affiue sit verbo 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 velint anxietatem & nisum includere, ut significet anxie, seu enixe expectare, sustinere, & sperare; It signifies to hope, expect, endure, and sustain, with care, solicitousness, and indeavours. Hence the 70 have rendred the word by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and the Vul. Lat. Sustinui. I have sustained and waited with patience.
And this on the Word; or he sustained his soul with the Word of promise that it should not utterly faint. Seeing he had made a discovery of Grace and forgiveness, though yet at a great distance; he had a sight of Land, though he was yet in a storm at Sea; and therefore encourageth himself, or his soul, that it do not despond.