Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

Chapter 6: Psalms 102–119:32

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safety of the people, the psalmist appropriately declares, all his precepts are trustworthy. They are established for ever and ever, enacted in faithfulness and uprightness (vv. 7–8). And surely, without God uniting the people to him by the sacred chain of the law, the fruit of their redemption would have been very small, and even that benefit would soon have been lost. We should observe, then, that the law is prominent because, by declaring the eternal love of God, it became the means of giving life.