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As the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. In the Book of Psalms are to be found the history of the people of Israel, the theology and spirituality of the Old Covenant, and a treasury of human experience expressed in prayer and poetry. So too does the work of expounding the psalms recapitulate and focus...

only: “Whom do you seek?” and that was enough to hurl them backward and fell them to the ground.13 Power like that he could not have humbled in his passion, except by keeping it hidden under sackcloth. 4. So then, I clothed myself in sackcloth and humbled my soul with fasting. We have understood about the sackcloth; now what are we to make of the fasting? Was it food Christ wanted, when he looked for fruit on the tree;14 and if he had found any, would he have eaten it? And was it water Christ wanted,
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