The Treasury of David
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
4. We have now come to the second head of the psalm. In this verse the
contrast of the bad state of the wicked is employed to heighten the coloring of
that fair and pleasant picture which precedes it. The more forcible translation
of the Latin and Greek versions is, “Not so
the ungodly, not so.” And we are hereby to
understand that whatever good thing is said of the righteous is not true in the
case of the ungodly. Oh, how terrible it is to have a double negative
put upon the promises! And yet this is just the condition of the ungodly. Mark
the use of the term ungodly, for, as we have seen in the opening of the
psalm, these are the beginners in evil, and are the least offensive of sinners.
Oh, if such is the sad state of those who quietly continue in their morality,
and neglect their God, what must be the condition of open sinners and shameless
unbelievers? The first sentence is a negative description of the ungodly, and
the second is the positive picture. Here is their character—they are likechaff, intrinsically worthless, dead, unserviceable, without substance, and
easily carried away. Here, also, mark their doom—the wind drivethaway; death will hurry them with its terrible blast into the fire in which
they will be utterly consumed.
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