“Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.”
Then they believed his words; they sang his praise. The moment of faith follows deliverance: belief and praise become the appropriate response to God's saving acts. The sequence—deliverance, then belief—suggests that faith arises from experience of God's power. Yet the following verses reveal this faith to be shallow and short-lived, setting up the psalm's litany of repeated unfaithfulness.
Church Fathers on Psalms 106:12
1. This Psalm also has the title Allelujah prefixed to it: and this twice. But some say, that one Allelujah belongs to the end of the former Psalm, the other to the beginning of this. And they assert, that all the Psalms bearing this title have Allelujah at the end, but not all at the beginning; so that they will not allow any Psalm which has not Allelujah at the end, to have it at the beginning; supposing that what seems to belong to the commencement, really belongs to the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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