“Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.”
The continuation that God has recompensed the speaker according to his righteousness and the cleanness of his hands in His sight establishes that divine reward corresponds to moral conduct. The double mention of righteousness and clean hands emphasizes consistency of the speaker's virtue. The phrase in His sight suggests that God's perfect perception confirms what the speaker claims. This verse asserts that divine evaluation affirms the speaker's self-assessment.
Church Fathers on Psalms 18:24
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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