“With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;”
The affirmation that with the merciful God shows Himself merciful and with the blameless God shows Himself blameless establishes divine reciprocity. The matching suggests that God responds to how humans approach Him. The merciful receiving mercy suggests that compassionate people find divine compassion. This verse establishes the principle of correspondence between human attitude and divine response.
Church Fathers on Psalms 18:25
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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