Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 12:6

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

Or, sincere, without the least mixture of Vanity or Falshood; and therefore shall infallibly be fulfilled. This he seems to add to answer an Objection which might arise in some mens Minds concerning what was last said. You tell us, The Lord saith, I will set him in safety, &c. But saying and doing are two things. They are so indeed in men, who oft speak rashly what they cannot perform, and deceitfully what they never intend: But all God's words are pure from all manner of Dross; from all Folly, or Fraud, or uncertain, he is holy and true in all his Doctrines, Threatnings, Predictions, and Promises.

(i. e.) Made of such Earth or Clay as was proper for, and then usual in that work. See 1. Kings 7. 46.

Marginal references: 2. Sam▪ 22▪ 31. Psal. 18. 30. [illegible: 1+ letters] 119. 140. Prov. 30. 5▪