“My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.”
The oath's permanence: "Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David." The invocation of God's holiness as guarantee of the oath establishes its sacred inviolability. Lying would violate God's holy nature.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:34
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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