Salmos 28

Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)

Salmos 28:1

If you keep silence with me and deprive me of your help, I shall immediately be consigned to death, which he called "pit," since the grave is dug like a pit. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 28:1

Salmos 28:2

Though the temple was not yet built, he gives the name "temple" to the tabernacle in which he prayed, distant from it in body but directing his mind there. Likewise also when blessed Daniel in Babylon prayed, he opened the windows facing Jerusalem, not under the impression that God was confined there but from his knowledge that the divine manifestation occurred there. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 28:2

Salmos 28:3

The prayer of blessed David is to have no truck with those who practice duplicity: he calls abhorrent those who say one thing but mean another. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 28:2

Salmos 28:4

Let no one think, however, that the righteous person is cursing his enemies: the words are a mark not of cursing but of a just verdict. "Grant them their due repayment," he says, meaning, May they fall foul of their own schemes, which they hatch against one another. This is said also in the seventh psalm, "Their trouble will come back on their own head, and their wrong will come down on top of them." — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 28:3

Salmos 28:9

The prayer for the people befits the king as well: it is also admirable about mighty David that though pursued also by the people, who waged war on him along with Saul, he offered supplication on their behalf to God. He foresaw their future conversion, you see, and had regard not for the injustice but for the servitude to come. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 28:5