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The commentaries contained in this volume show conclusively that Luther achieved great things in the field of Biblical scholarship. Luther’s language is simple and always to the point. He curries to no one’s favor as he goes to the heart of the sixteen psalms expounded in this volume. His attention to the texts is “personal, devotional, political, exegetical, polemical—all at the same time,”...

1. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven. THIS is as if he were saying: “No one is without unrighteousness; before God all are unrighteous, even those who practice works of righteousness and imagine that thus they can escape from unrighteousness; for no one can rescue himself. Therefore blessed are they—not those who have no sin or work their own way out but only those whom God forgives by grace. But who are they? Verses six and seven will teach us who they are. Whose sin is covered. Nor
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