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Diodorus of Tarsus

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500 · 133 passages across 2 books

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Psalms 27:6

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

God takes more satisfaction in the praise in these sacrifices than in the slaughter of animals.

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Psalms 27:8-9

When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

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.

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Psalms 27:12

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

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.

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Psalms 28:1

A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

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

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Psalms 30:8

I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.

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

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Psalms 31:15

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

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.

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Psalms 31:16

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

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.

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Psalms 31:23

O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

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

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Psalms 32:5

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

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.

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Psalms 32:6

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Immediately after the sin is a fitting time for confession … since a sin that lingers is entrenched.

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Psalms 32:9

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

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

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Psalms 33:5

He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

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.

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Psalms 34:6

This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

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.

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Psalms 34:9

O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

It is not possible for the one who fears God and hopes in him to fail.

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Psalms 35:13

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

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.

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Psalms 35:23

Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

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.

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Psalms 37:1

A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

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.

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Psalms 37:5

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

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.

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Psalms 37:10

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

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.

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Psalms 37:18

The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

“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.

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