“What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.”
The absent answer: "Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?" The final question invokes the covenantal promise, asking why it appears to have been abandoned. The tension between promise and present experience remains unresolved.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:48
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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