“For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.”
The statement that with God the speaker can run against a troop and scale a wall establishes that divine empowerment enables extraordinary feats. The running and scaling suggest physical capability exceeding normal human limits. The divine enablement suggests that human accomplishment depends on God. This verse employs military imagery to suggest that with God as ally nothing is impossible.
Church Fathers on Psalms 18:29
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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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