“Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:”
The reason for God's anger is specified: "because they had no faith in God, and did not trust in his saving power." The sin is fundamentally theological: the people lacked faith despite evidence of God's saving power repeatedly demonstrated. The explicit statement that this lack of faith provoked God's anger establishes that skepticism and doubt are not merely intellectual problems but covenant violations deserving divine punishment.
Church Fathers on Psalms 78:22
1. This Psalm does contain the things which are said to have been done among the old people: but the new and latter people is being admonished, to beware that it be not ungrateful regarding the blessings of God, and provoke His anger against it, whereas it ought to receive His grace....The Title thereof does first move and engage our attention. For it is not without reason inscribed, “Understanding of Asaph:” but it is perchance because these words require a reader who does…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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