of Lincoln, and the thoughtful brevity of Dr. Kay. Out of a host of others occasionally used, I may mention Calvin, Rivetus, Genebrard, Hammond, Gejerus, Piscator, Cocceius, and Le Clerc. For the poetry of the Psalms I have studied Herder, and Lowth's Prælectiones with the Note et Epimetra of T. Dav. Michaelis. I should be ungrateful indeed, were I to forget to add to this list the honoured name of Mr. Keble. It is depressing to think how completely such noble strains as, e.g., Psalm xciii. in that version, are unheard in our churches; how few avail themselves of the conscientious thoroughness of a translation which, when read side by side with the Hebrew Psalms, is a pregnant and condensed commentary. In the present Edition I have not scrupled to avail myself of the results of additional studies during the last year and a half. I have even ventured to break up the original materials, and to re-cast the arrangement in such a way as I hope to make the argument more simple and impressive. In the correction of the Hebrew I have received the valuable assistance of my learned friend and chaplain, the Very Rev. John Gwynn, Dean of Raphoe, to whose large stores of information and conscientious accuracy in every department of criticism and general literature almost each page of this volume is indebted. Psaltor, or Psalms of David, in English verse. By a Member of the University of Oxford. Oxford, 1840. I conclude with the earnest prayer that this book may, in some degree, enable some of our clergy and people to carry out the exhortation, WITNESS OF THE PSALMS TO CHRIST (Lectures I., II.) III. 55 8 Psalm xxii. proposed for special consideration Criteria for testing the superhuman origin of single prophecies: 1. Known prior promulgation. 2. Sufficiency of correspondence. 3. Remoteness, chronological and moral 9 9 9 9 5. Characteristic, but not over-definite, particularity 1. Universam ecrum naturam, et generales habitus, et extrema solummodo Based upon the subjectively National or Israelite principle 14 Jarchi's view that in Psalms of this class I stands for Israel personified. Applied to Psalm xxii. in the anti-Christian interest The view not necessarily anti-Messianic, but carried out ii. Christian scheme of interpretation of Psalm xxii.—represented ་་ 15 16 by Bossuet. Presuppositions. Who is the Forsaken One? . Particular traits in the delineation; verse 16 especially . IV. Current depreciation, I. Of the 'Christ Ideal' II. Of emotional contemplation of it. (II.) By analogy of the 'Duty-Ideal' Christ our Interpreter of Psalm xxii. Moral force of that interpretation LECTURE II. WITNESS OF THE PSALMS TO CHRIST-(continued) I. General division of Messianic Psalms into (i.) subjectively, (ii.) 333 |