Salmos 18

Arnobius the Younger · Comentário Patrístico (catena)

Salmos 18:1

Let us ask the Lord and say, "Who is he who loves you?" He will respond to us through his Gospel and say, "He who hears my words and does them, this is the one who loves me." — COMMENTARY ON PSALM 18

Salmos 18:3

He is my refuge, he is my liberator; as I praise and call on him I will be safe from my enemies. Let me say this in the present so that I may not doubt it in the future. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 18

Salmos 18:6

While the groans of death, the injustices, griefs, and snares, surround me, I called out to him in faith. He heard my voice from his holy temple, and my cry reached his ears. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 18

Salmos 18:23

I will be blameless with him, with that very one who, himself blameless, suffered on the cross for our iniquities. — COMMENTARY ON PSALM 18

Salmos 18:25

We agree with common opinion, "He will be like the one with whom he is joined." Indeed, this statement is very true, but it does not apply to the interpretation of the present verse. In this verse, if you wish to make the plain sense of the hymn, you will remember what the Lord said through the prophet to the people: If you walk upright in my sight, I will walk upright with you; if you walk turned from my ways, I will be turned from you. The psalmist speaks to this statement: With the holy, you will be holy; with the innocent, innocent, and et cetera. — COMMENTARY ON PSALM 18

Salmos 18:28

Just as the eye is the lamp of the body, so the lamp of the soul is the mind, in which, unless Christ has poured the oil of his grace, there will not be light within. The prophet, therefore, proclaims that his lamp is lighted by the Lord. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 18

Salmos 18:37

Not only do we avoid the ones pursuing us as we flee, but we pursue our enemies, and we seize them, and we do not turn back until they fail. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 18

Salmos 18:40

We will see the backs of our enemies fleeing, not the faces of ones pursuing us. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 18

Salmos 18:48

All these things will happen to us through him who placed his arms on the cross as a bow in the sky, and daily he intercedes for us. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 18