“Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.”
The covenant's inviolability: "I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went out from my lips." God's word, once spoken, cannot be altered or nullified. This establishes the ultimate reliability of the covenant despite conditional punishments.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:33
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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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