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A Self Existing God 555A Self Existing Pen 555

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves . My heart isinditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: mytongue is the pen of a ready writer. Psa 45:1

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the King: my tongue is the pen of aready writer.

My heart.There is no writing like that dictated by the heart. Heartless hymns are insults to heaven. Is inditing a goodmatter.A good heart will only be content with good thoughts. Where the fountain is good good streams will flow forth.The learned tell us that the word may be read over-floweth, or as others, boileth or bubbleth up, denoting the warmth ofthe writer's love, the fulness of his heart, and the consequent richness and glory of his utterance, as though it were theebullition of his inmost soul, when most full of affection. We have here no single cold expression; the writer is not one whofrigidly studies the elegancies and proprieties of poetry, his stanzas are the natural outburst of his soul, comparable to theboiling jets of the geysers of Hecla. As the corn offered in sacrifice was parched in the pan, so is this tribute of love hot withsincere devotion. It is a sad thing when the heart is cold with a good matter, and worse when it is warm with a bad matter,but incomparably well when a warm heart and a good matter meet together. O that we may often offer to God anacceptableminchah, a sweet oblation fresh from the pen of hearts warmed with gratitude and admiration. I speak of thethings which I have made touching the King.This song has the King for its only subject, and for the King's honouralone was it composed, well might its writer call it a good matter. The Psalmist did not write carelessly; he calls his poemhis works, or things which he had made. We are not to offer to the Lord that which cost us nothing. Good materialdeserves good workmanship. We should well digest in our heart's affections and our mind's meditations any discourse orpoem in which we speak of one so great and glorious as our Royal Lord. As our version reads it, the Psalmist wroteexperimentally things which he had made his own, and personally tasted and handled concerning the King. My tongue is

the pen of a ready writer,not so much for rapidity, for there the tongue always has the preference, but for exactness,elaboration, deliberation, and skilfulness of expression. Seldom are the excited utterances of the mouth equal in realweight and accuracy to the verba scripta of a thoughtful accomplished penman; but here the writer, though filled withenthusiasm, speaks as correctly as a practised writer; his utterances therefore are no ephemeral sentences, but such as fallfrom men who sit down calmly to write for eternity. It is not always that the best of men are in such a key, and when theyare they should not restrain the gush of their hallowed feelings. Such a condition of heart in a gifted mind creates thatauspicious hour in which poetry pours forth her tuneful numbers to enrich the service of song in the house of the Lord.

Psa 45:1 Enditing - Heb. boileth, or bubbleth up like water over the fire. This denotes that the workings of his heart, werefervent and vehement, kindled by God's grace, and the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Made - Have composed. Pen - Hewas only the pen or instrument in uttering this song; it was the spirit of God, by whose hand this pen was guided.

H7799 shushan / shoshan / shoshannah

1) lily

shushan shoshan shoshan shoshannah

shoo-shan'(2,3)sho-shawn'sho-shan-naw'

From H7797; a lily (from its whiteness), as a flower or architectural ornament; also a (straight) trumpet(from the tubularshape): - lily, Shoshannim

Shoshannim

those that shall be changed

Shoshannim

Shoshannim (plural.) Titles of Psalm 45; Psalm 69; Psalm 80. The "upon" expresses the object of the psalm. In Psalm60 the singular SHUSHAN occurs. Shoshannim means "lilies," i.e. beautiful virgins. The beauty of the innocent, pure, lilylike "virgins" (Psa_45:9; Psa_45:14) is spiritual; for the other psalms of the authors of Psalm 45, namely, "the sons ofKorah," are all spiritual. In Psalm 80 SHOSHANNIM EDUTH is the "testimony" ( Psa_78:5; Psa_81:5) which points outthe lovely ("lily like") salvation of the Lord. Hence, thrice is repeated "we shall be saved," Psa_80:3; Psa_80:6; Psa_80:19,and Psa_80:2, "save us." The lily is the enigmatic expression for loveliness. David delighted in enigmatic titles. SHUSHANEDUTH (Psalm 60) is "the lily of testimony"; God's promise (Genesis 49; Deuteronomy 33; Num_24:17-19) of Canaan toIsrael (Num_24:6) is His lovely testimony, of which the assurance was already given in a partial deliverance (Num_24:4-5).

H5329 natsach1) to excel, be bright, be preeminent, be perpetual, be overseer, be enduring

1a) (Niphal) enduring (participle)

1b) (Piel) to act as overseer or superintendent or director or chief

naw-tsakh'

A primitive root; properly to glitterfrom afar, that is, to be eminent(as a superintendent, especially of the Temple servicesand its music); also (as denominative from H5331), to bepermanent: - excel, chief musician (singer), oversee (-r), setforward.

From H7919; instructive, that is, a didactic poem: - Maschil.

1) (Hiphil) poem, song or poem of contemplationnoun masculine

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et

1) stylus

1a) iron stylus with diamond tip used to write on stone or metal

1b) reed pen used on a roll

H5608

saphar

saw-far'

A primitive root; properly to score with a mark that is, celebrate: - commune, (ac-) count, declare, number, + penknife,reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.

1) to count, recount, relate (verb)as a tally or record, that is, (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate;intensively to recount,

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to count (things)

1a2) to number, take account of, reckon

1b) (Niphal) to be counted, be numbered

1c) (Piel) to recount, rehearse, declare

1c1) to recount (something), rehearse

1c2) to talk

1c3) to count exactly or accurately

1d) (Pual) to be recounted, be rehearsed, be related

2) enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe (noun masculine)

2a) enumerator, muster-officer, secretary

2b) learned man, scribe

law-shone',law-shone',lesh-o-naw'lashon lashon leshonah

From H3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), andfiguratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water): - + babbler, bay, + evil speaker, language, talker, tongue,wedge.

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Gen 32:24 And JacobH3290 was leftH3498 alone;H905 and there wrestledH79 a manH376 withH5973 him untilH5704 the breakingH5927 ofthe day.H7837Gen 32:25 And when he sawH7200 thatH3588 he prevailedH3201 notH3808 against him, he touchedH5060 the hollowH3709 of histhigh;H3409 and the hollowH3709 of Jacob'sH3290 thighH3409 was out of joint,H3363 as he wrestledH79 withH5973 him.Gen 32:26 And he said,H559 Let me go,H7971 forH3588 the dayH7837 breaketh.H5927 And he said,H559 I will notH3808 let thee go,H7971

exceptH3588 H518 thou blessH1288 me.

Gen 32:27 And he saidH559 untoH413 him, WhatH4100is thy name?H8034 And he said,H559 Jacob.H3290Gen 32:28 And he said,H559 Thy nameH8034 shall be calledH559 noH3808 moreH5750 Jacob,H3290 butH3588 H518 Israel:H3478 forH3588 as aprince hast thou powerH8280 withH5973 GodH430 and withH5973 men,H376 and hast prevailed.H3201Gen 32:29 And JacobH3290 askedH7592 him, and said,H559 TellH5046 me, I pray thee,H4994 thy name.H8034 And he said,H559

WhereforeH4100is itH2088thatthou dost askH7592 after my name?H8034 And he blessedH1288 him there.H8033Gen 32:30 And JacobH3290 calledH7121 the nameH8034 of the placeH4725 Peniel:H6439 forH3588 I have seenH7200 GodH430 faceH6440

toH413 face,H6440 and my lifeH5315 is preserved.H5337Gen 32:31 And asH834 he passed

Gen 32:30 Peniel - That is, the face of God, because there he had seen the appearance of God, and obtained the favour ofGod.overH5674 (H853) PenuelH6439 the sunH8121 roseH2224 upon him, and heH1931 haltedH6760 uponH5921 his thigh.H3409

John Wesley

Gen 32:24-32A great while before day, Jacob being alone, more fully spread his fears before God in prayer. While thus employed,One in the likeness of a man wrestled with him. When the spirit helpeth our infirmities, and our earnest and vast desirescan scarcely find words to utter them, and we still mean more than we can express, then prayer is indeed wrestling withGod. However tried or discouraged, we shall prevail; and prevailing with Him in prayer, we shall prevail against allenemies that strive with us. Nothing requires more vigour and unceasing exertion than wrestling. It is an emblem of thetrue spirit of faith and prayer. Jacob kept his ground; though the struggle continued long, this did not shake his faith, norsilence his prayer. He will have a blessing, and had rather have all his bone put out of joint than go away without one.Those who would have the blessing of Christ, must resolve to take no denial. The fervent prayer is the effectual prayer. TheAngel puts a lasting mark of honour upon him, by changing his name. Jacob signifies a supplanter. From henceforth heshall be celebrated, not for craft and artful management, but for true valour. Thou shalt be called Israel, a prince with God,a name greater than those of the great men of the earth. He is a prince indeed that is a prince with God; those are trulyhonourable that are mighty in prayer. Having power with God, he shall have power with men too; he shall prevail, andgain Esau's favour. Jacob gives a new name to the place. He calls it Peniel, the face of God, because there he had seen theappearance of God, and obtained the favour of God. It becomes those whom God honours, to admire his grace towardsthem. The Angel who wrestled with Jacob was the Son of God, who was afterwards God manifest in the flesh, and who,dwelling in human nature, is called Immanuel, Hos_12:4, Hos_12:5. Jacob halted on his thigh. It might serve to keep him

from being lifted up with the abundance of the revelations. The sun rose on Jacob: it is sun-rise with that soul, which hashad communion with God.

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H6439

penu'el peny'el

pen-oo-ale',pen-ee-ale'

From H6437 and H410;faceofGod; Penuel or Peniel = facing God

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