The Christian Use of the Psalter

Praying, they stood with hands of love outspread,

If but that farther shore each might be first to tread.

8

"Inasmuch as I know not man's learning, I will enter into the mighty works of the Lord."

9

Discourses to Mixed Congregations, xvi.

10

i.e. Sheol, Hades, the grave or place of departed souls.

11

i.e. godly or pious, a characteristic word of the Psalmists, implying not only consecration but active devotion to God.

12

The princes of the people are gathered together,To be the people of the God of Abraham.(R.V.)

13

vi., xxxii., xxxviii., li., cii., cxxx., cxliii.

14

"Ingemuit totus orbis et se Arianum esse miratus est" (S. Jerome).

15

Evelyn's Diary: Dec. 25, 1657.

16

The earth which He hath established for ever (R.V.).

17

Gibbon, Decline and Fall, c. xxiii.

18

"Consider her palaces" (R.V.).