Here we have Aleph,* the first letter. And some of the mediæval commentators, following S. Jerome, explain the meaning of this word to be doctrine,1 bidding us observe that we have in the various letters as it were a concise summary of the intent of the entire Psalm, divided under its two and twenty heads, and that doctrine, as the leading idea of the whole poem,* is thus fitly placed at the very beginning. In truth, the meaning of Aleph now most widely accepted, is that it signifies Ox, an