“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.”
The command to be still and know that God is God establishes silence and meditation as the path to recognizing divine character and sovereignty. The exhortation to cease striving suggests that human efforts and anxieties must yield to trust in divine action; effort and trust cannot coexist. The affirmation that God will be exalted among nations and in the earth suggests the ultimate outcome of divine action—universal recognition of God's supremacy. The command to be still becomes an expression of faith that God will accomplish what human effort cannot. The shift from warning about chaos and the call to trust in verses 2-9 to the command for stillness here suggests that meditation and trust constitute the appropriate human response to divine promise.
Church Fathers on Psalms 46:10
1. It is called, “A Psalm, to the end, for the sons of Korah, for things secret.” Secret is it then; but He Himself, who in the place of Calvary was crucified, you know, has rent the veil, Matthew 27:51 that the secrets of the temple might be discovered. Furthermore since the Cross of our Lord was a key, whereby things closed might be opened; let us trust that He will be with us, that these secrets may be revealed. What is said, “To the end,” always ought to be understood of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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