“For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.”
For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. The comprehensive deliverance encompasses body and spirit: soul from death, eyes from tears (emotional grief), feet from stumbling (physical instability). The holistic salvation affects all dimensions of personhood. This verse articulates total, integrative rescue.
Church Fathers on Psalms 116:8
1. “I have loved, since the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer” Psalm 114:1. Let the soul that is sojourning in absence from the Lord sing thus, let that sheep which had strayed sing thus, let that son who had “died and returned to life,” who had “been lost and was found;” Luke 15:6, 24 let our soul sing thus, brethren, and most beloved sons. Let us be taught, and let us abide, and let us sing thus with the Saints: “I have loved: since the Lord will hear the voice of my…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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