“Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.”
The affirmation that God will increase glory and comfort on every side articulates that restoration will be not merely recovery but enhancement and beautification. The comprehensive nature of comfort (on every side) suggests complete restoration. This verse anticipates the fullness of divine blessing after affliction.
Church Fathers on Psalms 71:21
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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