“If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;”
The consequence of disobedience: "If they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with scourges." The punishment is proportional to the violation; physical discipline becomes the consequence of covenant-breaking.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:31
1. Understand, beloved, this Psalm, which I am about to explain, by the grace of God, of our hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, and be of good cheer, because He who promised, will fulfil all, as He has fulfilled much: for it is not our own merit, but His mercy, that gives us confidence in Him. He Himself is meant, in my belief, by “the understanding of Æthan the Israelite:” which has given this Psalm its title. You see then, who is meant by Æthan: but the meaning of the word is…
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