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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...

has also counted the sand. Any infinite13 thing this world embraces, though innumerable to human beings, is not innumerable to God. We could go further and say that it is not innumerable to the angels either. His understanding cannot be reckoned. His understanding defeats all mathematicians, for it is incalculable. Who can count number itself? Whatever is to be counted is counted by means of numbers, but number itself cannot be numbered; there is no way whatever of numbering number. What is there
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