“What does he mean when he says, "I have declared your justice"? He did not simply say, "I have given," but "I have declared." What does this mean? That he has justified our race not by right actions, not by toils, not by barter and exchange but by grace alone. Paul, too, made this clear when he said, "But now the just…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — DISCOURSES AGAINST JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS 7:3.2
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9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
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7Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
— Psalms 40:9 —
10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
11Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.