“...for thou hast magnified thy Word above all thy name.”
(Psa. 138:2)
I find the few commentaries I possess tiptoe, so to speak, around this text. But, as the old preachers would say, “It says what it means and means what it says.” We’re told by Paul that God has magnified Jesus’ name above every name (Phil.2:9). Our text doesn’t belittle that blessed truth, but rather guards and protects it. For without THE final authority in ALL matters, a person could do with His Name whatever suited his fancy, as many have done in history and in our own day.
God didn’t hand down to His people an imperfect BOOK, but a Book in which He preserved all His Words (Psa. 12:6-7). To the English-speaking people, it is to be found in the old A.V. 1611, King James Bible. As to arguing for other nationalities, God will take care of them. At Pentecost we are told well over a dozen nations were present; all with different tongues (languages), “...every man heard them speak in his own language...And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? (Acts 2:6,8) An imperfect Book produces an imperfect faith (Rom. 10:17).
Without an authoritative Book, to be sure, “...every man will do that which is right in his own eyes”; and who is to say his word is not as good as yours? There are many translations today all professing to be the Word of God. They do this, not by comparing theirs to the previous translation, but to the 1611 K.J.V. HUMMM! There is a vast difference between
containing the Word of God and being the Word of God!
The ETERNAL WORD (GOD), is not 99% perfect; the LIVING WORD (CHRIST), is not 99% accurate: nor the WRITTEN WORD 99% correct: they are ALL 100% PURE!
I hear someone say, “I don’t believe there is ONE BOOK in which God preserved ALL HIS WORDS.” I ask you, “Who told you that? The Holy Spirit?
An Old Disciple
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