“In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.”
The affirmation that salvation, glory, and a strong rock belong to God and that God is the psalmist's refuge articulates the comprehensive attribution of all good to God. The reference to salvation and glory indicates that the ultimate sources of deliverance and honor are divine, not human. The affirmation that God is the people's refuge indicates that the entire community, not merely individuals, finds safety in God. This verse articulates the corporate dimension of the theology: God is the refuge of the covenant people.
Church Fathers on Psalms 62:7
1. The title of it is, “Unto the end, in behalf of Idithun, a Psalm to David himself.” I recollect that already to you has been explained what Idithun is....Let us see how far he has leaped over, and whom he has “leaped over,” and in what place, though he has leaped over certain men, he is situate, whence as from a kind of spiritual and secure position he may behold what is below....He being set, I say, in a certain fortified place, does say, “Shall not my soul be subject to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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