“Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.”
The statement that God thundered from heaven and the Most High gave forth His voice establishes God speaking through the storm and making divine will audible. The voice imagery suggests that divine speech operates as command that restructures reality. The thunder suggests that divine speech carries awesome power. This verse emphasizes that God communicates divine will through natural phenomena.
Church Fathers on Psalms 18:14
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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