Diodorus of Tarsus

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

133 passages across 2 books of the Bible · Who was this?

Commentary

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  1. Psalms 27:6
    God takes more satisfaction in the praise in these sacrifices than in the slaughter of animals.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 27

  2. Psalms 27:8-9
    What is it that I am asking? For you not to keep silent if ever I sin as a human being or dismiss without concern my situation, leaving me unschooled in better ways. Instead, correct and reform me in a loving way.… Do not put me beyond your care.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 27

  3. Psalms 27:12
    You do two things at the same time, making me better and not giving the foe an occasion for taunting or for thinking that they will be able to harm me against your will.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 27

  4. Psalms 28:1
    I shall attribute the fact of the victory not to my virtue but to you, the God who proved its source for me.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 28

  5. Psalms 30:8
    I acknowledge the one responsible and shall not be reluctant to admit that all the good things I have are from you.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 30

  6. Psalms 31:15
    He says “my lot” in the sense of all my relief and all my tribulation. Since everyone has times when they are distressed and times when they are also made happy, he means, “my lot,” the times allotted to me for being made glad and for being distressed, all these are “in your hands” and capable of being changed as you wish.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 31

  7. Psalms 31:16
    Since it seemed as though God had turned away from them and was angry with them, he asks for reconciliation: Only have regard to me, he is saying, and it is sufficient for my salvation.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 31

  8. Psalms 31:23
    He repays extraordinarily those who are guilty of arrogance so as to bring out that God loathes this transgression more than every other sin.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 31

  9. Psalms 32:5
    Just as I sinned and was punished, so I acknowledged it and was saved.… He wishes to bring out also the promptness of God’s lovingkindness, saying, I shall confess, that is, I resolved to confess the fault to the Lord, and your pardon anticipated my confession.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 32

  10. Psalms 32:6
    Immediately after the sin is a fitting time for confession … since a sin that lingers is entrenched.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 32

  11. Psalms 32:9
    The person with understanding and reason perceives the sin, whereas the one without understanding does not perceive it, not wanting to.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 32

  12. Psalms 33:5
    This is typical of God, both to show lovingkindness and to judge—to show lovingkindness for those who hope in him and to condemn those who trust in themselves.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 33

  13. Psalms 34:6
    The one who was in need of everything and given up as lost by people implored God in a moment of tribulation, and the Lord heard him and saved him against the odds.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 34

  14. Psalms 34:9
    It is not possible for the one who fears God and hopes in him to fail.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 34

  15. Psalms 35:13
    Even if my prayer proved unacceptable to God and was sent back to me on account of the unworthiness of what I prayed for, I nevertheless did everything on my part with the purpose of obeying God.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 35

  16. Psalms 35:23
    Since by his long-suffering he gives the impression of sleeping, as it were, he urges him to arise and deliver a verdict in his favor.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 35

  17. Psalms 37:1
    Being human, we are all irked by the prosperity of the affluent, especially when they are dishonest. So from the outset he immediately gives this exhortation: Do not imitate evildoers, even if they are rich, nor lawbreakers, even if from their wickedness they amass wealth. Why not? Because … though flourishing for a time, such people have a rapid end. He did well to compare them with flowers: they also delight the eye for a time but are unable to bear the heat and dry up at once.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 37

  18. Psalms 37:5
    Be sincere in pursuing good, not pretending to be honest while being evil; instead, be good openly and as it were without disguise so that God may openly repay you with good.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 37

  19. Psalms 37:10
    The wicked not only grows rich but even plots against the righteous, God’s permission causing both developments to go ahead; but let it not alarm you. God in his foreknowledge [is] aware of the fate of the wicked and [sees] the righteous person’s endurance.… God looks ahead to [the wicked person’s] fate and mocks his threats and his frenzy, aware as he is of the future. Thus in many cases when the wicked think they have gotten the better of the righteous, then it is that sudden ruin overtakes them when unexpected punishment is inflicted on them by God.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 37

  20. Psalms 37:18
    “Knows” means makes his own, as in the first psalm, “Because the Lord knows the ways of the righteous,” that is, makes them his own.

    COMMENTARY ON PSALM 37

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