| Psalms 118:127
| Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the topaz.
| Topaz. Hebrew paz, which denotes "the purest gold" of Phison, Genesis 2:11. (Calmet) --- The topaz was discovered only in the reign of Ptolemy, father of Philadelphus. (St. Hilary) (Pliny, [Natural History?] 27:8.) --- Yet St. Jerome and others have the topaz, (Berthier) which St. Ambrose represents as the finest of precious stones. (Calmet) --- The more the law is despised by the wicked, the more are the just in love with it. (Worthington)
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