![]() ![]() Then the word means to found, to create, Genesis 14:19, Genesis 14:22 - as the heavens and the earth and then, to get, to gain, to purchase, etc. "thou hast founded me in my mother's womb.'įor thou hast possessed my reins - The word here rendered “possessed” means properly to “set upright,” to “erect,” and hence, the derivative of the verb is applied to a cane or reed, as being erect. Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb with the secundine, or afterbirth, in which he carefully wrapped him, a proof of his knowledge of him, and care for him in the womb or with skin and flesh he covered his bones with as they grew there see Job 10:11 or the sense is, he protected and defended him in his embryo state, and when ripe for birth took him out from thence, and held him up ever since, Psalm 22:9 he had his eye on him when no other eye could see him, not even his mother that bare him, and before ever he himself saw light. ![]() His thoughts and counsels, the reins being the seat of instruction and counsel hence God is called the trier of the reins, and searcher of the hearts of the children of men he is the possessor or master of their most secret thoughts, and thoroughly knows them see Psalm 7:9 they are also the seat of the affections, which are naturally sinful and inordinate, and set upon carnal and earthly things but the Lord possesses and engrosses the affections of his people in the best sense, Psalm 73:25 moreover the reins are the seat of lust, the bed in which it is conceived and brought forth, and God knows the first motions of it there and that the imagination of the thought of man's heart is evil continually, Genesis 6:5
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