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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...

even from the place I know I have reached. Strengthen me in those of your words to which I hold already, those I already act upon, so that I may advance from them to others. 5. But what prevents any man or woman from so surely walking in God’s ways of justice as to reach his wonders with ease? It can be nothing else but the hindrance of which the psalmist speaks next, begging that it be removed from him: Put far from me the way of iniquity. But he has more to say, because the law of works entered
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