Salmos 46
John Chrysostom · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Salmos 46:1
He does not prevent tribulations coming, but he is at hand when they come, making us tried and tested … providing greater encouragement from the assistance than the pain from the tribulations. The assistance he provides us with, you see, is not simply as much as the nature of the troubles requires but much more. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 46:1
Salmos 46:2
Everything he shakes, he rocks, he moves when he wishes, so easy and trouble-free is everything for him.… So great is his power, you see, that he simply nods and all this happens. So how can we be afraid when we have such a Lord? — COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 46:1
Salmos 46:4
As a river divided into countless tributaries waters the surrounding land, so God's providence flows everywhere, spreading copiously, advancing in a rush and covering everything. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 46:1
Salmos 46:5
He who is in fact so exalted, uncircumscribed by place, the ineffable being, deigned to call our city his dwelling and sustains it from every quarter. This, you see, is the meaning of "in her midst," as elsewhere also he says, "Behold, I am with you." He supports it on all sides; thus not only will the city come to no harm, but it will not even be shaken. The reason is that it enjoys the most prompt assistance, which is ever ready and prepared; this, you see, is the meaning of "as day dawns," not pending or delayed but ever fresh and abounding, and at the appropriate time. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 46:2
Salmos 46:8
Since the weak prevailed over the strong, the few over the many, the powerless over the powerful, and the outcome defied expectations, rightly does he call them "marvels" for happening to everyone's surprise and being spread everywhere on earth. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 46:2
Salmos 46:11
This, then, is God, everywhere mighty, everywhere exalted; this is God who takes his place with us always. Have no fear, then, be not disturbed, having an invincible Master as we do, to whom all honor and glory is fitting, together with the peerless Father and his vivifying Spirit, now and forever, and for ages of ages. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 46:3