STUDIO ALBUMS

Division of Psalm 15

In this psalm,
I. By the question (v. 1) we are directed and excited to enquire for the way.
II. By the answer to that question, in the rest of the psalm, we are directed to walk in that way (v. 2-5).
III. By the assurance given in the close of the psalm of the safety and happiness of those who answer these characters we are encouraged to walk in that way (v. 5).²
 

The Ideal Man

Perhaps next to Ps. 23, Ps. 15 is the best known and most generally appreciated of the psalms. It is called The Good Citizen and God's Gentleman, and is the most complete statement of the ideal man to be found in the Psalter. The Talmud says that the 613 commandments of the Pentateuch are all summarized in this psalm. In structure, the first verse and the second sentence of v.5 constitute a kind of envelopment, in which the virtues of the ideal man are enclosed in concrete detail.³