“Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.”
Before I was humbled, I went astray; but now I keep your word. The reversal from pre-humiliation error ('went astray') to post-humiliation obedience ('keep your word') indicates that suffering becomes a teacher. This verse portrays humiliation as a corrective experience.
Church Fathers on Psalms 119:67
1. From its commencement, dearly beloved, does this great Psalm exhort us unto bliss, which there is no one who desires not....And therefore this is the lesson which he teaches, who says, “Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord” Psalm 118:1. As much as to say, I know what you wish, you are seeking bliss: if then you would be blessed, be undefiled. For the former all desire, the latter fear: yet without it what all wish cannot be…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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