Continuing my posts of patristic texts coinciding with this Sunday’s Psalm study.
The Lᴏʀᴅ works righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed. (Ps 103:6)
[T]he Lord performs mercies for them that hope in Him, and takes vengeance for all those who suffer wrong. Accordingly, none of them can be in doubt about what is said, once they realized that the Lord Himself is identified by this definition. This verse is uttered as a mode of definition, when a person is being denoted by what he uniquely does. When you ask, “What is the Lord?” the answer you give is: He who works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. So the Lord God is adequately identified, since the words could not be apt for any other. He does mercies to those who have shown mercy; as Christ says in the gospel: Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Next comes: and justice for all who are oppressed. This is promised to those adorned with the gift of patience, of whom He says: Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.
and justice for all who are oppressed. (Ps 103:6)
[T]he Lord performs mercies for them that hope in Him, and takes vengeance for all those who suffer wrong. Accordingly, none of them can be in doubt about what is said, once they realized that the Lord Himself is identified by this definition. This verse is uttered as a mode of definition, when a person is being denoted by what he uniquely does. When you ask, “What is the Lord?” the answer you give is: He who works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. So the Lord God is adequately identified, since the words could not be apt for any other. He does mercies to those who have shown mercy; as Christ says in the gospel: Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Next comes: and justice for all who are oppressed. This is promised to those adorned with the gift of patience, of whom He says: Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.
Cassiodorus
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