Homilist Psalm 63:6 When I remember you on my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches. I. IT IS DIRECTED TO THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SUBJECT — Meditation on God — 1. Serves to rouse the intellectual faculties to their highest effort. 2. Serves to prostrate the soul in humility. 3. Serves to spiritualize all the sympathies of our nature. 4. Serves to assimilate the character to the Perfect One. II. IT IS EMPLOYED IN A MOST INFLUENTIAL SEASON. "In the night watches." Night is pre-eminently the season for solemn thought. 1. It gives the mind an inward direction. As all outside of him is thus entombed in silence and sable, his soul becomes solemnly conscious of itself and its responsibility. 2. It gives the mind a solemnity of mood. Night is the emblem and minister of seriousness. A thought which heaves the whole nature with solemn emotions in the night, has often but little influence over us in the day. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.WEB: when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches. |
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