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Cassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, Volume II 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.

alone but on the feeling of the heart, in which even the poor person can be very rich. So do not boast, you wealthy ones, because you can possess calves bringing forth horns and hooves, for God spurns these things and looks for a most pure heart, which is possessed rather by those who do not with guilty mind seek your riches. Next comes: Seek ye God, and your soul shall live. He advises the poor to seek the food of the mind rather than that of the body, and to long for the bread of angels by which
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