“My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.”
The reference to lips shouting for joy and soul that God has redeemed articulates the wholehearted bodily and spiritual response to deliverance. The joy is not restrained but exuberant. The reference to the redeemed soul indicates the depth of the transformation. This verse articulates the joy that accompanies rescue.
Church Fathers on Psalms 71:23
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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