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| Psa 138:2 in the KJV reads: "I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name."
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Hello Donald,
In the ancient Hebrew mind the "name" of God was not the mere appellation we in these times use the word and concept – a label to designate a person – but referred to the present Being of His Majesty; to say his name was to invoke Him Himself, His very presence.
Here David, by the Holy Spirit, is saying that God magnifies His word above all other attributes and characteristics. This may well be a reference to God the eternal Son, who was to become the Word made flesh. At any rate, it is only by God's word that we know anything of Him at all; it is by His word He reveals His glory and grace –
all His attributes, His decrees and eternal plan, His blessed will – so it is little wonder He would magnify that by which we know all else of Him.