Salmos 6
Didymus the Blind · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Salmos 6:4
We may understand the word turn in two ways. Sometimes the sense is this: Since you have turned your face away from me, I ask that now you return that mercy and show it to me. Sometimes the significance is this: Since my spirit has turned away into evil, may you, returning and calling that soul back to you (as "You have turned who are given to turning away") redeem my soul from repeated sins and from the powers causing these evils. — FRAGMENTS ON THE PSALMS 6:4, 5
Salmos 6:5
The saints are not only mindful of God as they hold on to this life but even more so when they are separated from this perishable body. What, therefore, does he say? No one who is mindful of you falls into that death that sin brings forth, that is, that death that separates the sinning spirit from a life of virtue. I desire to be mindful of you by turning toward your kindness. Save me, lest I be consumed in death when my prevailing weakness has turned against me and my spirit is thoroughly distraught. For it is also said, he is not mindful of you who dies; but he who is mindful of you does not fall into that death about which the Savior said: "He who hears my word will not see death in eternity." — FRAGMENTS ON THE PSALMS 6:6