Salmos 27
Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Salmos 27:2
Those who stole an advantage over me in their pursuit like wild animals and their attempts to make a meal of me while still alive, far from doing me any harm, were themselves the victims of total destruction. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 27:3
Salmos 27:3
Having such wonderful experience of assistance, he is saying, even should two or three times the number of enemies try to attack me, I would brave the difficulties, armed with this hope. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 27:3
Salmos 27:4
Having enjoyed such beneficence, he is saying, I seek from my benefactor not wealth or influence, royalty or glory, but constant attendance in the divine temple, contemplation of the divine beauty there and inspection of everything happening in accordance with law. I have … already secured salvation from that source and escaped the hand of my pursuers. This the mighty David both asked for and received from the munificent God: he brought back the divine ark, erected another more wonderful tabernacle and assembled the different choirs of singers. You could gain a more precise knowledge of this from the books of Chronicles. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 27:4
Salmos 27:11
In place of "Guide me by law," Aquila and Theodotion said, "Illuminate," whereas Symmachus has, "Give me a glimpse of your way." … Become for me in your own person both lawgiver and guide, giving me a glimpse of the path leading to you. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 27:7
Salmos 27:14
The mind adorned with virility, he is saying, and by means of it getting the better of the onset of misfortunes, is strengthened, and gains the victory and awaits the divine promises, to which it becomes the heir, the body also co-operating. Now, he calls the life looked forward to "land of the living" insofar as it is separated from death and free of corruption and sadness. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 27:8