Until I went into the sanctuary of God
The tabernacle or house of God, where the Word of God was read
and explained, prayer was made, and sacrifices offered up, and
where fellowship was had with the saints, and communion with God
himself; which for one hour or moment is preferable to all the
prosperity of the wicked, during their whole life. This shows
that though the psalmist was beset with the temptation, yet not
overcome; it did not so far prevail as to cause him to neglect
public worship, and relinquish the house of God, and the
ordinances of it; and it is right, under temptations, doubts, and
difficulties, to attend the public ministrations, which is the
way and means to have relief under temptations, to have doubts
resolved, and difficulties removed: some by "the sanctuary of
God" understand the Scriptures, which are holy and of God, and
are profitable for instruction, and are to be consulted and
entered into by a serious reading of and deep meditation on them;
whereby may be known the happiness that is prepared for the
saints in the other world, and the misery of the wicked, and
hereby judgment may be made of the present case and condition of
each: others interpret it of the world of spirits, which may be
entered into by contemplation; when it may be observed that the
spirits of just men upon their dissolution possess unspeakable
joys and glories, and the souls of the wicked are in
inconceivable torments:
then understood I their end;
both of the godly and of the wicked; that the end of the
righteous is peace, rest, salvation, and eternal life, and the
end of the wicked is ruin, destruction, and death; see ( Psalms
37:35-38 ) .
