The treasures of the sacred page

Psalm 12:6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

“The church rejoices in the promises of God her Saviour, because they are such as she can confide in. His words are not like those of deceitful boasting man, but true and righteous altogether. Often have they been put to the test, in the trials of the faithful, like silver committed to the furnace, in an earthen crucible; but, like silver in its most refined and exalted purity, found to contain no dross of imperfection, no alloy of fallibility in them. The words of Jehovah are holy in his precepts, just in his laws, gracious in his promises, significant in his institutions, true in his narrations, and infallible in his predictions. What are the thousands of gold and silver, compared to the treasures of the sacred page!”

Comments on Psalm 12:6 by George Horne in A Commentary on the Book of Psalms, (New York, NY: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1854, pp. 69-70

God has kept and will keep and preserve His Word. “The French atheist Voltaire...once said, ‘In twenty years Christianity will be no more. My single hand shall destroy the edifice it took twelve apostles to rear.’ He wrote that in fifty years no one would remember Christianity. But in the year he wrote that, the British Museum paid the Russian government five hundred thousand dollars for a Bible manuscript while one of Voltaire’s books was selling in the London book stalls for just eight cents.”

Comments on Psalm 12:6 by James Montgomery Boice, as quoted in Enduring Word Bible Commentary (apparently from Psalms, Volume 1, Psalms 1-41, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1994, p. 101)