“Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.”
God's provision of food to all flesh expands the scope from Israel specifically to all creation, asserting universal divine care. Food provision represents meeting of basic need; God's covenant faithfulness extends to sustaining all living creatures. The universalism here suggests that Israel's particular experience of God's care participates in a broader pattern of divine sustenance for all creation. This verse moves toward eschatological universalism.
Church Fathers on Psalms 136:25
1. “Give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endures for ever” Psalm 135:1. This Psalm contains the praise of God, and all its verses finish in the same way. Wherefore although many things are related here in praise of God, yet His mercy is most commended; for without this plain commendation, he, whom the Holy Spirit used to utter this Psalm, would have no verse be ended. Although after the judgment, by which at the end of the world the quick and the dead must…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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