“Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.”
Eternal establishment: "His line shall continue forever, and his throne as long as the sun before me." The eternity of David's line is sworn by God's holiness. The comparison to the sun's perpetuity (in ancient cosmology, the sun was understood as eternal) suggests unending duration.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:35
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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