num_pages: 712
description:  A Classic  Includes Active Table of Contents  Includes Religious Illustrations The Book of Psalms even if it is properly speaking the third part of the Old Testament as Our Lord says in Luke 24:44 all things must needs be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms concerning me nevertheless is also a sort of summation or as it were a compendium of all of Sacred Scripture. For the Book of Psalms contains accounts from sacred history as is evident from Psalms 77 103 104 and others; it contains many very plain prophetic oracles as is evident from Psalms 2 21 44 60 and others; it contains laws and precepts as is evident in Psalm 118; it contains hagiographa in almost all the Psalms that is exhortations to virtue discouragement from vice threats promises examples remedies for vices divine praises prayers to God in short a complete natural moral and supernatural theology. Aeterna Press
language: English
title: A Commentary on the Book of Psalms
publisher: Aeterna Press