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Studies in the Book of Psalms: Being a Critical and Expository Commentary, with Doctrinal and Practical Remarks on the Entire Psalter is unavailable, but you can change that!

The 150 Psalms of the Old Testament span a timeframe of 873 years, from oldest to newest—the newest of which was written nearly three thousand years ago. Despite the incredible time gap between the writings of these songs and our current day, they are still incredibly relevant to the contemporary life. Theologian William S. Plumer notes this in the introduction to Studies in the Book of Psalms,...

dialect another. It may, however, be sufficient to advise the reader that after very full investigation the best scholars appear to adhere to the sense given in our common English translation, and render it, Kiss the Son. So Calvin, Jebb, Hengstenberg, and Alexander. Even the church of England departs from the Septuagint here and reads, Kiss the Son. Fry reads, Adore the Son. Here he gives the significance of the act, rather than the word to describe it. Kissing was an act of worship among idolators.
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