Expositions on the Psalms
Expositiones in Psalmos · Ἑρμηνεία εἰς τοὺς Ψαλμούς
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Contents
Psalms 1–8 are published; the rest are still to be staged.
- 1The commentary reads Psalm 1 of Christ and his followers, applying the ungodly to Jesus’ opponents, the tree to Christ and the Scriptures, and the wind to God’s final judgment.
- 2The commentary reads Psalm 2 of the plot against Christ by Herod, Pilate, and the Jewish leaders, of God’s judgment in the fall of Jerusalem, and of the Son’s eternal and fleshly birth.
- 3The commentary reads Psalm 3 both of David’s flight from Absalom and of the prophets persecuted by their people, and finally of humanity saved from spiritual enemies by Christ’s resurrection.
- 4The commentary reads Psalm 4 as David’s thanksgiving for victory, drawing lessons on prayer, controlling anger, righteous action as sacrifice, and Christ as the light who teaches true goods.
- 5The commentary reads Psalm 5 as the prayer of the faithful soul or the Church, which inherits God’s promises, rises early to pray, and is protected from the wicked and the heretics.
- 6The commentary reads Psalm 6 as David’s long repentance after his sin, with the “eighth” as the day of Christ’s resurrection, and teaches that salvation is owed to God’s mercy.
- 7The commentary reads Psalm 7 as David’s thanksgiving after Hushai defeated Ahithophel’s counsel, and applies it to the devil, the Church, the cross and ascension, and God’s patient judgment.
- 8The commentary reads Psalm 8 of the churches as God’s winepresses, of the children’s praise of Jesus, and of humanity made in God’s image and destined, in Christ, to rule all things.