“As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.”
The reference to enemies fleeing before God and smoke disappearing articulates the annihilation and dissolution of opposition. The image of smoke vanishing suggests the insubstantiality and transience of resistance to God. This verse emphasizes that God's action is absolutely effective in eliminating opposition.
Church Fathers on Psalms 68:2
1. Of this Psalm, the title seems not to need operose discussion: for simple and easy it appears. For thus it stands: “For the end, for David himself a Psalm of a Song.” But in many Psalms already we have reminded you what is “at the end: for the end of the Law is Christ for righteousness to every man believing:” Romans 10:4 He is the end which makes perfect, not that which consumes or destroys. Nevertheless, if any one endeavours to inquire, what means, “a Psalm of a Song:”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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