Salmos 38

Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)

Salmos 38:1

David made this beginning to the sixth psalm as well, asking to be disciplined in the manner of a surgeon, not a judge, and to be treated not with harsh remedies but with mild ones. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 38:2

Salmos 38:7

So, he means, my handling of desire not fittingly but wastefully proved the cause of these troubles.… From that desire [as he says in the next verse] I garnered the fruit, which was my stooping to earth, he is saying, and constant bewailing on account of my heart's bitter pangs. For this reason I changed the force of desire and made it a minister to the divine will.… Since once I used it wrongly, I shall always apply it to the benefit of your commands. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 38:3-4

Salmos 38:10

By these statements he implies two things: both the extraordinary degree of depression, by which the light does not even seem to be light, and the deprivation of divine care, which he rightly called "light of my eyes." — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 38:4

Salmos 38:14

History teaches this more clearly. Even when Absalom mounted a case against his father and drew to his side those who had lost cases in judgment, blessed David was long-suffering. When Shimei berated him with voice and hand upraised, he took the abuse in silence; and he forbade Abishai to try to exact justice against the culprit in the words, "Let him curse me because the Lord bade him curse David." — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 38:6

Salmos 38:17

Sin made me deserve whipping, he is saying; thus I submit myself to punishment. I long for treatment at your hands, pricked as I am by the pangs of sin. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 38:7