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Psalms 73:24

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 73:24

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel. The psalmist expresses full confidence in God's continual guidance through all life's dangers and difficulties, notwithstanding his own shortcomings and" foolishness."

He then looks beyond this life, and exclaims, And afterward (thou wilt) receive me to glory. Even Professor Cheyne sees m this the story of Enoch spiritualized." "Walking with God," he says, "is followed by a reception with glory, or into glory; and he compares the passage with , which he has previously explained as showing that "the poet has that religious intuition which forms the kernel of the hope of immortality."

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