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Salmos 9

Eusebius of Caesarea · Comentário Patrístico (catena)

Salmos 9:3

These things, he said, I will assuredly do "when my enemies are turned back." But who is such an enemy unless it is death, the enemy of life about which it is said, "You knew the enemy death will be destroyed." Destruction will be Death's end when he is turned back. But "back" where, unless the return into the pristine condition when he did not exist? "For God did not make death, but through the envy of the devil, death entered into the world." When, therefore, as death is turned back, it will no longer be, then all the rest of the enemies will be enfeebled and the enemies of your Word will be destroyed before your face. — COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 9:3-4

Salmos 9:9

The righteous who now seek you know that you are not going to abandon them in the time of judgment. Let them hope strongly in you, having patience in everything awaiting the prepared retribution. — COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 9:10, 11

Salmos 9:14

David, … prophesying in the person of Christ, says somewhere of his resurrection after death: … "You who lift me up from the gates of death, that I may tell all your praises." I consider that not even the most obtuse can look these things in the face [and disregard them]. — PROOF OF THE GOSPEL 3:2.101

Salmos 9:15

Whenever they desire to wipe out and abolish the race of the faithful, they themselves are lured into their own calamity; and in the very snares they have concealed for the people of God they are caught, and "their foot will fall." — COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 9:16-17

Salmos 9:18

In this life the wicked are raised up, in no sense comprehending their own wicked wrongdoing. But there will be a time of the judgment of God in which the crime that they have admitted will be overturned [in hades, when they are about to receive punishments; LXX]. Every person of God, however humbled in this life, whenever poor in spirit and however much he is trampled by the wicked so that it seems that God denies him by his forgetfulness, through it all is never rejected. "For the poor shall not be forgotten forever," and the patience that he brings to this life and his calm spirit will not follow the end without fruit. — COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 9:18-19

Salmos 9:20

He urges God by his tolerance and the strength of his mercy and patience that he grant a time of trials of long duration to the people harassing him. Before he had prayed that the nations be judged in the sight of God; now he asks that a lawgiver be appointed for the nations before the future judgment, so that they might learn they are people and not brute animals, for the law was hardly given to brutish animals. This law is not from Moses, who once had carried it from the midst of people; it is not about the law given to the Jews alone, nor does he wish that another law be awaited, as the law of the New Testament stretches over the whole earth. Indeed, Christ is the Lawgiver, and the Gospel message applies to the nations. — COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 9:20, 21