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A Commentary on the Psalms from Primitive and Mediæval Writers, Volume 1: Psalm 1 to Psalm 38 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume one of the Commentary on the Psalms from Primitive and Mediæval Writers covers Psalms 1–38. In addition to verse-by-verse commentary, each Psalm includes an introduction and various thoughts from the writings of the Church Fathers. Volume one also includes an in-depth introduction to the series, which includes two dissertations: “The Psalms as Employed in the Offices of the Church” and...

1 The LORD is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing. In the last Psalm we heard of the Passion of CHRIST:* now we hear of the effects of that Passion. It was because He stood in need of everything, that we lack nothing. And take it either way, both are beautiful: The Lord is my Shepherd, so our version; The Lord governs me, so the Vulgate. And think of the Psalm first of all as uttered by David long before his combat with Goliath, “as he was following the ewes great with young ones.” What he
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