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The Psalms as Christian Praise: A Historical Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Following in the style of their companion volumes, The Psalms as Christian Worship and The Psalms as Christian Lament, Bruce Waltke and James Houston now explore the depths of Christian praise. Each volume uniquely blends verse-by-verse commentary with a history of Psalms interpretation in the church from the time of the apostles to the present. Since praise is the essence of the book of Psalms,...

spontaneously urge us to join them in praising it.”19 Human beings are political animals and want to persuade others that what they praise is admirable and worthy of praise; and when others join them, it makes their joy even better. Lewis continued: “I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.”20
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