“Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.”
The plea that in old age and gray hairs God would not abandon articulates that devotion throughout life should result in care in declining years. The intention to declare God's might to generations establishes that the witness is intergenerational: the psalmist will testify to descendants. This verse expresses desire to complete the testimony in life and to pass it on to the next generation.
Church Fathers on Psalms 71:18
1. In all the holy Scriptures the grace of God that delivers us commends itself to us, in order that it may have us commended. This is sung of in this Psalm, whereof we have undertaken to speak....This grace the Apostle commends: by this he got to have the Jews for enemies, boasting of the letter of the law and of their own justice. This then commending in the lesson which has been read, he says thus: “For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not worthy to be called an…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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