Our love of the Word should be such that it (1) propels us to gratitude toward God on account of the abundant supply of his Word that he has conferred to us, a gratitude in which we recognize from our heart the mercy of our benefactor and the excellence of his benefits (Ps. 147:19–20), we praise both with our mouth (Ps. 147:19–20; all of Ps. 119), and we repay them with our work, that is, with faith and observance of things revealed in the Word (Heb. 4:2; Jer. 42:5–6). (2) Next, such a love urges us to study the divine Word (Ps. 1:2), which consists in its religious reading, hearing, meditation, and observance (we will treat each of these individually in what follows). (3) Then, it kindles in us a love, honor, and support for those who deliver and explain the Word of God to us (1 Thess. 5:12; 1 Tim. 5:17; Gal. 6:6).

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