The oldest commentary on the meaning of the psalms is the manner of their arrangement in the Psalter: that is, the collections in which they are grouped, the technical and historical notes they carry, and the order in which they stand. Some of these data (many of the historical notes, for instance) are certainly irrelevant, and it might be that all such commentary were merely trivial. The collections might be just a handful of laments, hymns, etc., that happened to be
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