April 24 / Psalms 53, 55, 58, 61, 64, 69-71

Psalms 53, 55, 58, 61, 64, 69-71

For it is for Your sake that I have borne reproach,
that dishonor has covered my face.

Psalm 69:7

Good people are always a reproach to the wicked, because they are quite unwilling to sanction their crimes. They carefully withdraw from them, join in no compact with them. These reproaches bear witness to the slaps, scourgings and spitting that the Lord Savior endured from the mad crowd.

Cassiodorus, “Expositions on the Psalms”

It seems to me that in commenting on Ps. 69:7 Cassiodorus here flips the verse on its head. The verse talks about how the psalmist (or, really, Christ — see Ps. 69:9; Rom. 15:3) bears (erroneous) reproach from the wicked, but Cassiodorus talks about how the wicked feel (correctly) reproached by the righteousness of the righteous. Food for thought…

See also:

• June 2 (2022) / Psalms 53-54
• June 3 (2022) / Psalm 55:1-14
• June 4 (2022) / Psalm 55:15-23
• June 7 (2022) / Psalm 58
• June 10 (2022) / Psalm 61
• June 13 (2022) / Psalm 64
• June 19 (2022) / Psalm 69:1-12
• June 20 (2022) / Psalm 69:13-28
• June 21 (2022) / Psalm 69:29-36
• June 22 (2022) / Psalm 70
• June 23 (2022) / Psalm 71:1-13
• June 24 (2022) / Psalm 71:14-24