Ps 62:12 has to be taken together with verse 11. I think that NIV gets the message: “One thing God has spoken,
two things I have heard:
“Power belongs to you, God,
and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”;
and, “You reward everyone
according to what they have done.”
David observed that when God spoke on Sinai, telling the Decalog, in His discourse there were two messages: first that of God’s grace and generosity that gives us power and puts His fatherly love in us, making us His children, and second that God is just and repays the acts of man. Where did he see this? In Hebrew, there isn’t a way to give a negative commandment like: “do not kill!”, but, for a negative commandment you only can use the imperfect and to say: “you will not kill”. But, when you read this proposition can interpret it in two ways. The simple imperfect, as a promise “you will not kill”, and the justive imperfect, like a negative commandment: “not to kill!” So, in the promise, there is the gospel and in the commandment the justice. In conclusion, the Decalog is like a banknote. It has two faces: covenant and law. To explain it in details I need to speak about 100 minutes. I have a sermon on YouTube, on this subject, but it is in Romanian. https://youtu.be/B3oW23g4eyc?si=7lpprU3x3AfetoXG
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Ps 62:12 has to be taken together with verse 11. I think that NIV gets the message: “One thing God has spoken,
two things I have heard:
“Power belongs to you, God,
and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”;
and, “You reward everyone
according to what they have done.”
David observed that when God spoke on Sinai, telling the Decalog, in His discourse there were two messages: first that of God’s grace and generosity that gives us power and puts His fatherly love in us, making us His children, and second that God is just and repays the acts of man. Where did he see this? In Hebrew, there isn’t a way to give a negative commandment like: “do not kill!”, but, for a negative commandment you only can use the imperfect and to say: “you will not kill”. But, when you read this proposition can interpret it in two ways. The simple imperfect, as a promise “you will not kill”, and the justive imperfect, like a negative commandment: “not to kill!” So, in the promise, there is the gospel and in the commandment the justice. In conclusion, the Decalog is like a banknote. It has two faces: covenant and law. To explain it in details I need to speak about 100 minutes. I have a sermon on YouTube, on this subject, but it is in Romanian.
https://youtu.be/B3oW23g4eyc?si=7lpprU3x3AfetoXG
Iulian Sava