Salmos 7
Jerome · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Salmos 7:6
Arise, in order that a vast multitude may believe in you, for after you have risen, what else would we pray for? Return to the Father. "Above them on high be enthroned." For whose sake? For the assembly of the peoples. In that you suffered, you suffered for us; in that you rose again, you rose for us; in that you ascended to the Father, ascend for us. "Above them on high be enthroned." "And no one has ascended into heaven except him who has descended from heaven: the Son of man who is in heaven." — HOMILY ON PSALM 7
Salmos 7:12-13
Many maintain that these words of the psalm refer to the devil; they mean, unless you will have been converted, unless you will have repented, you will be in the power of the devil. "He will bend and aim his bow." The devil always has his bow ready, and he is ever alert to shoot his arrows and strike us down.… They whose hearts are burning with lust and passion are the very ones whom the devil conquers.… The psalm did not say for those who are about to burn—that is, about to burn from his arrows. The hearts of those he sees already burning, no matter whose they are, are his target. — HOMILY ON PSALM 7
Salmos 7:16
Just as anyone who tosses a stone straight up into the air and is foolish enough not to move out of its way is struck on the head and wounded by his own stone, in the same way, the devil downs himself by his own arrogance; the pride that exalts him is the same pride that defeats him. "His mischief shall recoil on his own head." All the devil wants is to hold his head up high, but he cannot. Why can he not? Because his "mischief shall recoil on his own head" and crush him down. — HOMILY ON PSALM 7