“He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.”
The statement that God brought the speaker out into a spacious place and delivered him because He delighted in him establishes that divine rescue reflects divine favor. The spacious place suggests liberation from confinement and the opening of possibility. The mention of divine delight establishes that God's rescue flows from affection and love. This verse connects deliverance to divine pleasure in the speaker.
Church Fathers on Psalms 18:19
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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