DIDYMUS DICTA

DAILY MEDITATIONS ON THE PSALMS

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Each morning I spend 30 minutes, more or less, researching and writing on a passage of scripture. This is principally a form of spiritual self-discipline. But comments and questions are welcome.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005



You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions; your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad; daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir. (Psalm 45: 7-9)

This is a song written for the wedding of King David to a Phoenician Princess. It came to be heard as a song anticipating the messiah.

We have been invited to a wedding banquet. We need only accept. We need only to arrive ready to dance, and drink, and celebrate.

We are to put on our best robes - both physical and metaphorical. We are to arrive in joyful anticipation. We are to be glad.

Above is the Wedding Banquet in the Nymphs' Grotto by Marc Chagall

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