PSALM 38 A PSALM TO DAVID HIMSELF, ON THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE SABBATH. What doth this recollection of the Sabbath mean? What is this Sabbath? For it is with groaning that he "calls it to recollection." You have both heard already when the Psalm was read, and you will...
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Augustine on the Psalms. Psalms 35 – 37
Augustine on the Psalms 35 - 37 PSALM 35 ...The title of it causeth us no delay, for it is both brief, and to be understood not difficult, especially to those nursed in the Church of God. For so it is, "To David himself." The Psalm then is to David himself: now David...
Augustine on the Psalms. Psalms 19 – 34
PSALM 19 TO THE END, A PSALM OF DAVID HIMSELF. It is a well-known title; nor does the Lord Jesus Christ say what follows, but it is said of Him. "The heavens tell out the glory of God" (ver. 1). The righteous Evangelists, in whom, as in the heavens, God dwelleth, set...
Augustine on the Psalms. Psalms 8 – 18
Augustine on Psalms 8-18 PSALM 8 TO THE END, FOR THE WINE-PRESSES, A PSALM OF DAVID HIMSELF. (12) He seems to say nothing of wine-presses in the text of the Psalm of which this is the title. By which it appears, that one and the same thing is often signified in...
Augustine on the Psalms. Psalms 1 – 7
PSALM I "Blessed is the man that hath not gone away in the counsel of the ungodly" (ver. 1). This is to be understood of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Man.(1) "Blessed is the man that hath not gone away in the counsel of the ungodly," as "the man of earth did,"(2)...
Augustine on the Psalms. Psalms 41-45
PSALM 41 TO THE PEOPLE, ON THE FEAST OF THE MARTYRS. The solemn day of the Martyrs hath dawned; therefore to the glory of the Passion of Christ, the Captain of Martyrs, who spared not Himself, ordering His soldiers to the fight; but first fought, first conquered, that...