Commentary on Psalms

Aphrahat the Persian Sage (270–345)

And even as the righteous who are perfected in good works shall not come into the judgment to be judged, so of the wicked also whose sins are many, and the measure of whose offenses is overflowing, it shall not be required that they should draw near to the judgment, but when they have risen again they shall turn back to Sheol.… All the nations that know not God their Maker are esteemed by God as nothingness and shall not come near to judgment, but as soon as they have risen shall turn back to Sheol.

And furthermore David said concerning his passion, "For my food they gave gall, and for my thirst they did give me vinegar to drink."

David said in that passage concerning his passion, "They have persecuted him whom you have struck and have added to the affliction of him that was slain." For they added many [afflictions] to him, much that was not written concerning him, cursings and revilings, such as the Scripture could not reveal, for their revilings were hateful. But, however, "the Lord was pleased to humiliate him and afflict him." And "he was slain for our iniquity," and "was humiliated for our sins and was made sin in his own person."

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