“Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.”
The prayer that enemies be blotted out of the book of the living articulates the request for erasure from the record of those who live. The reference to the divine book suggests that all names are recorded and that erasure represents loss of existence. This verse expresses the desire that the enemies cease to exist even in memory. The reference to not being written with the righteous emphasizes separation from the saved.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:28
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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