“"For he has delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling." He describes the future rest by a comparison with things here. Here, he says, the sorrows of death have compassed me, but there he has delivered my soul from death. Here the eyes pour forth tears because of trouble, but there, no long…”
Basil of Caesarea, 4th c. — HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 22
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9I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
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7Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
8For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
— Psalms 116:9 —
10I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: