“He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.”
The affirmation that God is a God of salvation and that escape from death belongs to God articulates that God alone has the power to grant life and deliver from death. The emphasis on God as the source of deliverance establishes fundamental dependence on divine power. This verse emphasizes God's absolute control over the boundary between life and death.
Church Fathers on Psalms 68:20
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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