{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa131.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa131.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa131.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\neyes lofty--a sign of pride (Psa 18:27).\nexercise myself--literally, \"walk in,\" or \"meddle with.\"\nSurely, &c.--The form is that of an oath or strongest assertion. Submission is denoted by the figure of a weaned child. As the child weaned by his mother from the breast, so I still the motions of pride in me (Mat 18:3-4; Isa 11:8; Isa 28:9). Hebrew children were often not weaned till three years old.\nsoul--may be taken for desire, which gives a more definite sense, though one included in the idea conveyed by the usual meaning, myself.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 131","type":"page"}