“He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.”
The description of the qualified person as one who walks with integrity and works righteousness and speaks truth in his heart establishes the fundamental conditions. The walking with integrity suggests whole-life consistency between profession and conduct. The working of righteousness emphasizes active ethical engagement rather than passive innocence. The truth in the heart suggests that the qualified person's interior disposition aligns with external conduct. This verse establishes that holiness encompasses both action and interior intention.
Church Fathers on Psalms 15:2
A psalm of David himself. 1. Touching this title there is no question. “O Lord who shall sojourn in Your tabernacle?” Psalm 14:1. Although tabernacle be sometimes used even for an everlasting habitation: yet when tabernacle is taken in its proper meaning, it is a thing of war. Hence soldiers are called tent-fellows, as having their tents together. This sense is assisted by the words, “Who shall sojourn?” For we war with the devil for a time, and then we need a tabernacle…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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