Chapter 130
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The twelfth hymn teaches those who have been deemed worthy to receive purification not to be arrogant in their hope for perfection, but to be humble.
Ps.130:1. Lord, my heart is not exalted... we walk lower in the great, lower in the wondrous than me, and so on.
In order not to be arrogant, for this purpose everything is useful, says the Psalmist, to practice the virtue opposite to arrogance, which the Savior also taught, saying: “Unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3). He means children weaned from their mother’s breast, thereby depicting grief. For the child does not lag behind the mother, suffering from being deprived of milk. So, says the prophet, in misfortunes I incessantly prayed to God, without which I would have suffered the heaviest punishment.
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