Salmos 32

Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)

Salmos 32:1

I class as enviable and blessed those who by the Lord's lovingkindness receive forgiveness of sins apart from their works. To them, in fact, he exercises such generosity as not only to forgive them but also cover over their sins so that no trace of them remains. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 32:1

Salmos 32:5

When David said, "I have sinned against the Lord," Nathan replied, "The Lord has put away your sin, you will not die." He did, however, threaten to fill his house with calamities of all kinds; here too likewise, "You put away the impiety of my sin": immediately after perpetrating such things, he is saying, I should have been consigned to death according to the law, but you applied your lovingkindness and did not so consign me, keeping my treatment to moderate censure. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 32:3

Salmos 32:10

All people, even if adorned with the works of virtue, stand in need of divine grace; hence the divine apostle also shouts aloud, "By grace you are saved through faith; this is not of your doing—it is God's gift." — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 32:6

Salmos 32:11

So let no one rejoice in his or her own achievements but rather exult in God and find satisfaction in that. This is in keeping with the apostolic statements, "Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord." — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 32:7