words that David prayed were ultimately Christ’s. Hence, “this short observation about the New Testament sheds significant light on the entire Psalter. It refers the Psalter to Christ.”3 Second, I suspect that most Psalter readers assume that the book is randomly arranged, like a potpourri or grab bag of theological observations. But there is a specific organizational structure to the whole Psalter that is most readily observable in its fivefold division. In fact, according to ancient rabbinic tradition,
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