“Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.”
The prayer that guilt be added to the enemies and that they not enter God's righteousness articulates the request that the enemies be excluded from God's saving purposes. The reference to not entering into God's righteousness suggests exclusion from salvation and the covenant community. This verse petitions for the ultimate judgment: not merely punishment but permanent alienation from God's blessing.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:27
1. We have been born into this world, and added to the people of God, at that period wherein already the herb from a grain of mustard seed has spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, has leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: Genesis 9:19 for from East and West and North and South shall come they that shall sit down with the Patriarchs, Matthew 8:11 while those shall have been…
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