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Theodoret of Cyrus: Commentary on the Psalms 1–72 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume makes available for the first time in English the major biblical commentary by one of the leading exponents of Antiochene exegesis, Theodoret, bishop of Cyrus. Though originally intended as an opening to his exegetical work—in the manner of his predecessors in this school, Theodore of Mopsuestia and John Chrysostom—Theodoret’s Psalms commentary comes from his later ministry in the...

is the finest for me (v. 6). On account of this inheritance, he is saying, I was the subject of the current schemes. He calls the schemes cords, note, and similarly says in another psalm, “Cords of sinners ensnared me, and I did not forget your Law.”14 So he means, For the sake of this finest inheritance and thanks to the salvation, I am exposed to the current schemes. I shall bless the Lord who gave me wisdom; even until night my entrails brought me to my senses (v. 7). Yet with the Lord giving
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