Salmos 7
Gregory of Nyssa · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Salmos 7:1-17
That same adversary, Absalom, as if he has been born again from ourselves, prepares the war against us. Our sound judgment concerning the matter, or rather our alliance with God, turns him who is bloodthirsty against us back. For because he attributes the cause of the good things that have been accomplished for him through "the words of Cush" to God, he composes this thanksgiving.… It would be worthwhile to apply the figures of the story to the virtuous life, how the advice that saves us becomes the strangling of the adversary; and this saving advice has been recorded, on the one hand, in the history, and on the other, in the psalm. — INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PSALMS 2:11.148-49
Salmos 7:6
The mass of adversaries cannot otherwise be destroyed, if the Lord has not risen on our behalf, and death must by all means precede the resurrection. He, then, who has revealed the resurrection of the Lord has, at the same time, shown that which is bound up together with the resurrection, I mean, of course, the mystery related to the passion. For this reason, having been inspired by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, he says, "Rise up, O Lord, in your anger; be exalted in the ends of my enemies." By "anger" he indicates the retributive power of the just judge, and by the rest he indicates the destruction of evil. For that which is perceived as contrary to the good, being only hostile by nature, is the evil whose end is destruction and a passing over into nonexistence. He, then, who said, "Be exalted in the ends of my enemies," predicts, through the evil of his enemies "being brought to an end," that the course to evil no longer remains in [his] life. — ON THE INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PSALMS 2:10.125-26