“At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.”
The affirmation that He made darkness His covering and pavilion and thick clouds His dwelling place establishes God surrounded by the most awesome and impenetrable darkness. The pavilion imagery suggests God's tent or fortress amid clouds. The thick clouds suggest divine hiddenness and the obscurity surrounding divine action. This verse emphasizes divine transcendence and the inscrutability of divine action.
Church Fathers on Psalms 18:12
To the end, for the servant of the Lord, David himself. 1. That is, for the strong of hand, Christ in His Manhood. “The words of this song which he spoke to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him out of the hands of his enemies, and of the hand of Saul; and he said, On the day when the Lord delivered him out of the hands of his enemies and of the hand of Saul:” namely, the king of the Jews, whom they had demanded for themselves. 1 Samuel 8:5 For as “David” is said…
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