“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”
The psalmist understands himself to be addressing the community on behalf of God, promising that God will instruct and teach the faithful in the way they should go. The phrase "I will instruct you and teach you" suggests God's pedagogical role. The promise "I will counsel you with my eye upon you" emphasizes that God's guidance is not distant but involved and attentive. The verse suggests that the psalmist has been taught by experience and now offers himself as a conduit of God's instruction.
Church Fathers on Psalms 32:8
To David himself; for understanding. 1. To David himself; for understanding; by which it is understood that not by the merits of works, but by the grace of God, man is delivered, confessing his sins. 2. “Blessed are they whose unrighteousness is forgiven, and whose sins are covered” Psalm 31:1: and whose sins are buried in oblivion. “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has not imputed sin, nor is there guile in his mouth” Psalm 31:2: nor has he in his mouth boastings of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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