“But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.”
God's character is recalled: "But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness." The recitation of God's merciful, gracious, patient, and faithful character becomes the final ground for hope. This description echoes the formula of God's self-revelation in Exodus 34.
Church Fathers on Psalms 86:15
1. No greater gift could God have given to men than in making His Word, by which He created all things, their Head, and joining them to Him as His members: that the Son of God might become also the Son of man, one God with the Father, one Man with men; so that when we speak to God in prayer for mercy, we do not separate the Son from Him; and when the Body of the Son prays, it separates not its Head from itself: and it is one Saviour of His Body, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son…
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