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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...

souls of the saints, it is through them that God, who knows quite well in advance what is to happen, will deride and mock his enemies. 4. Then he will speak to them in his anger, and in his rage he will throw them into disarray. The psalm now shows more clearly how he speaks to them by saying, He will throw them into disarray. His anger is the same thing as his rage. However, the Lord God’s anger and rage should not be thought of as any disturbance in his mind, but as the power
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