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The Book of Psalms; A New Translation, with Introductions and Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Vol. I is unavailable, but you can change that!

The first of a two-volume commentary set on the book of Psalms, this volume thoroughly introduces them with over 100 pages of background history, theological information, and a charting of the usage of the Psalms throughout the Church. Psalms 1–72 are then analyzed in detail, with thorough notes.

1. BLESSED IS THE MAN, lit. “The blessedness or ‘happiness’ (plur.) of the man.” We have the same form of expression in 2:12, 32:1, 2, 41:1 [2], 119:1, 2, 127:5, 128:1, and in many other places. The A. V. renders sometimes “blessed,” and sometimes “happy,” but more frequently the former. It is not an exclamation, but the recognition of a fact. “The prophet seeing that such persons are few upon earth, breaks forth suddenly and says, Blessed is the man.”—Luther. The structure of the verse is very exact,
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