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God’s Wrought Salvation in Psalm 98

Will Nielsen
November 14th, 2007
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Psalm 98:1-3 (NRSV)

1 O sing to the Lord a new song,
for he has done marvelous things.
His right hand and his holy arm
have gotten him victory.
2 The Lord has made known his victory;
he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.
3 He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness
to the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen
the victory of our God.

God’s salvation is not simply a thing announced, but a ‘wrought’ reality. In saving us, God truly does certain deeds, ‘wondrous things,’ by which we are redeemed. God saves man by the forceful intrusion of His holiness into man’s history. God’s arm is a metaphor of this irrupting redemptive holiness. In the ‘wondrous things’ of the Incarnation, the Atonement, the Resurrection, God’s arm invades the process of human destiny with the outpouring of His own life. Man’s life is thereby given access to the incorruptible life of God.1

Reardon, Fr. Patrick Henry. Christ in the Psalms. (Ben Lomond, CA: Conciliar Press, 2000), 193.

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