“With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.”
Longevity and salvation: "With long life I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation." The final promise of a long life filled with divine salvation represents the ultimate blessing. Temporal length and spiritual salvation become unified.
Church Fathers on Psalms 91:16
1. This Psalm is that from which the Devil dared to tempt our Lord Jesus Christ: let us therefore attend to it, that thus armed, we may be enabled to resist the tempter, not presuming in ourselves, but in Him who before us was tempted, that we might not be overcome when tempted. Temptation to Him was not necessary: the temptation of Christ is our learning, but if we listen to His answers to the devil, in order that, when ourselves are tempted, we may answer in like manner, we…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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