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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...

Striking in your beauty compared with the sons of human beings. Grace was poured out on your lips; hence God blessed you forever (v. 2). You, he is saying, whom he named king, whom in the title he called “beloved,” surpass in beauty the human race, and pour forth floods of wisdom through your tongue; [1189] this you possess not for the time being but forever. Now, it should be understood that the inspired word revealed not the divine but the human aspect of Christ the Lord: it would not have compared
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