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THE

BOOK OF PSALMS:

VERSIFIED AND ANNOTATED,

-BY-

REV. DONALD CAMPBELL MCLAREN, D. D.

GENEVA, NEW-YORK,

ROCHESTER, N. Y.:

CLAGUE & COPLIN, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS,

1878.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877,

By REV. DONALD CAMPBELL McLAREN, D. D.,

in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C,

gift

JH. Russell 6-6-33

THE BOOK OF PSALMS.

HIS distinctive Title was divinely given to this

TH

book as a collection, and is applicable, in its true and full significancy, to all its distinct parts without exception.

The first sentence, however, in the appendix to the Commentary of Hengstenberg on this portion of the word of God is, "there is no general name in Hebrew for the Psalms. Why does he give them, as a whole, that name, which he does again and again, and yet, as a critic, at last affirm that it is an unjustifiable misnomer? What he aimed to subvert, as he divulges subsequently, is, "the current opinion which was common among the Protestant Reformers." There are sufficient and permanent reasons for this opinion, too plain to be obscured, and too valid to be undermined by criticisms as flimsy as they are ostentatious. Every one who reads may know without mental searching, that one prominent portion of the Old Testament, in distinction from all the rest, is in the New Testament designated the Psalms, Luke 20: 42. And David himself saith in the Book of Psalms. Our Lord thus sanctioned what David did in prefixing that name mizmor, not the other zimrah to the 110th Psalm. But more than this, He gave that name to all in the Book, that name expressive of the divine authorship of every psalm in the Book, Luke

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