Continuing on to Psalm 36. The footnote to verses 8 and 9 says, "Verses 8 and 9 reveal the Divine Trinity in His divine dispensing as the enjoyment of God's people in His house."
Verses 8 and 9 talk about the fatness of God's house, drinking the river of God's pleasures, and the fountain of life, in whose light we see light.
But in the preceding footnote, on verse 5, it says, "Verses 5-10 are David's praising God for His lovingkindness, faithfulness, and righteousness mixed with the enjoyment of God in His house. However, such praising followed David's accusing the wicked (vv 1-4), showing again the mixture of human concept and the divine concept in the Psalms."
So Lee says David, in accusing the wicked, is being natural and fallen. David is neither enlightened nor revealing to us the Divine. Just
God's judgment upon the wicked. I suppose David was wrong for throwing a stone at Goliath as well. David was supposed to turn the other cheek, right?
This is reminiscent of pseudo-intellectuals who judge others as unenlightened based on arbitrary and impossible criteria. Like, the founders of the U.S. Constitution were sexist pigs because they didn't give women the right to vote.
Look at John Adams' letters to his wife Abigail and you'd hardly call him that.
But we can, if we want, drag in irrelevant criteria and make all sorts of unpleasant assessments
of our subjects.
David and Israel were in a great struggle. It was violent, and a lot of people died. "A thousand fall at your right hand, and ten thousand at your left" wasn't too far-fetched as hyperbole. So I don't think it's relevant to judge David by "God's NT economy" standards. God's economy, at that time, was to establish Jerusalem. If David hadn't bonked Goliath, among others, there wouldn't be any Solomon building a temple and so forth. Just like propertied white males in 1781 getting to choose government representatives being the precursor of later rights given to women, ethnic minorities, etc.
Anyway, this is basically my way of re-iterating that I find the analysis of Psalms to be rather unsatisfying (if you hadn't picked that up by now).
