“For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?”
God's incomparability: "For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?" The rhetorical questions establish God's unrivaled status even among divine beings. This theological exaltation supports the conviction that God can and will fulfill covenant promises.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:6
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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