The Psalms: Translated and Explained (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Drake, Mrs. Emma F. Angell

9781440041587: The Psalms: Translated and Explained (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 144004158X ISBN 13: 9781440041587

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2010

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Excerpt from Commentary on Psalms

These religious poems represent many different forms. There are hymns of praise and worship of God; many take the form of prayers for help, protection, and salvation; and others are pleas for forgiveness. They may be songs of thanksgiving for God's blessing or petitions for the punishment of enemies. The prayers are both personal and national. They portray the most intimate feelings of one individual or are the expression of many. Some of the Psalms represent the needs and feelings of all the people of God.

The Psalms were quoted by Jesus, cited by the writers of the New Testament, and became the treasured book of worship of the early Christian church, from its very beginning.

The Hebrew name for Psalms was The Book of Praises. The present name derives from the Latin Vulgate, which followed the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament). It is the second of three Old Testament books considered poetical: Job, Psalms, and Proverbs. These three were also called books of truth. Some scholars feel the final editing probably took place in the time of Ezra. Thus the dates when the individual Psalms were written must range through many centuries.

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PREFACE. THE prescot publication owes its origin to IIengstenberg's Commentary on tho Psalms. The originnl design was to mo.ke tho.t work, by abridgment IUld other unessentinl chcwges, mom ncceptllblo and useful to tho English render than it could be in tho form of an exact trllnslation, It was soon (ound, bow'eyer. thut by far the most importo.nt part of such a book wOlllll bo 11 literru ,'ersion of the Hebrew text, and that this was preciscly what could not be obtained o.t second hanel, by tho awkwarli and ull!'atisfying process of translating a translation, but must bo derived directly from au independent sClUtiny of tho original. In nttempting this, tho ue,iations from llengstenberg, continually in fOlm and not unfrequently in substance, rendered it wholly iuexpedient and improper to make bim respon~ible f.lr what was relllIy 11 new translation, Tho only courso reIDaining then,foro was to waKe this gencralo.cknowlcdgmeot, tha.t his "ol'k is the basis of

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