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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...

came true: So they thought, but they were mistaken, for their malice completely blinded them (Wis 2:21). Would it have been a great feat to come down from the cross, for someone who so easily rose from the grave? Why was it his will to suffer even to the point of death? This was another way in which he fled from Saul into a cave. A cave, you see, can be thought of as a place underground. Now it is well known to us all that his body was laid in a tomb that had been hewn out of rock; and this tomb
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