This is only what we might expect, and it is well to remember it nowadays. “God is His own interpreter” in Scripture as well as in providence; and if we wait on Him, He will assuredly make it plain. But as in providence “blind unbelief is sure to err, and scan His ways in vain,” so in Scripture it is sure to err, and scan His lines in vain. And the devout poet might have gone farther; for, most surely, unbelief will not only scan God’s ways and God’s Word in vain, but turn both the one and the other into an occasion of making a blasphemous attack upon God Himself—upon His nature, and upon His character, as well as upon the revelation which He has been pleased to give us. The infidel would rudely smash the lamp of inspiration, quench its heavenly light, and involve us all in that deep gloom and moral darkness which inwrap his misguided mind. We have been led into the foregoing train of thought while meditating upon the third verse of our chapter. We are exceedingly desirous to cultivate the habit of profound and careful study of holy Scripture. It is of immense importance. To say or to think that there is so much as a single clause, or a single expression, from cover to cover of the inspired volume, unworthy of our prayerful meditation, is to imply that God the Holy Ghost has thought it worth His while to write what we do not think it worth our while to study. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.” (2 Tim. iii. 16.) This commands our reverence. “Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning.” (Rom. xv. 4.) This awakens our personal interest. The former of these quotations proves that Scripture comes _from God_; the latter proves that it comes _to us_. That and this, taken together, bind us to God by the divine link of holy Scripture—a link which the devil, in this our day, is doing his very utmost to snap; and that, too, by means of agents of acknowledged moral worth and intellectual power. The devil does not select an ignorant or immoral man to make his grand and special attacks upon the Bible, for he knows full well that the former could not speak, and the latter would not get a hearing; but he craftily takes up some amiable, benevolent, and popular person—some one of blameless morals—a laborious student, a profound scholar, a deep and original thinker. Thus he throws dust in the eyes of the simple, the unlearned, and the unwary.