David’s Syllogism by Fuller

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 19, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 10.

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David’s Syllogism.

By Fuller

Ps. 66. 18–20.

LORD! I find David making a syllogism in mood and figure, two propositions he perfected.

Verse 18, “If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear me.”

Verse 19, “But verily God hath heard me, he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.”

Now I expected that David should have concluded thus:

Therefore I regard not wickedness in my heart.

Verse 20, “Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.”

Thus David hath deceived, but not wronged, me. I looked that he should have clapped the crown on his own, and he puts it on God’s head. I will learn this excellent logic; for I like David’s better than Aristotle’s syllogisms, that, whatsoever the premises be, I make God’s glory the conclusion.—Fuller.