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Cassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, Volume I is unavailable, but you can change that!

Written between AD 540 and 559, Cassiodorus uses the Psalms for the purposes of instruction in theology, hermeneutics, and eloquence.

custom was changed. The expression, de sanguinibus (for blood-offerings), contravenes the grammatical rule by which the plural of this word is not used. We must accordingly number this among the idioms peculiar to divine Scripture. Nor will I be mindful of their names by my lips. He says that the ancient names possessed by infidels were altered by the grace that ensued. Earlier they were called sons of anger, sons of the devil, sons of the flesh, but after the coming of the Lord they were reborn
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