Expositions on the Book of Psalms (NPNF I/VIII)

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Complete work

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Written by the author

?co ..& A SELECT LIBRARY NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS of THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH EDITED BY PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D., PROFESSOR IN THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NEW YORK, IN CONNECTION WITH A NUMBER OF PATRISTIC SCHOLARS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA VOLUME VIM' SAINT AUGUSTIN: EXPOSITIONS ON THE BOOK OF PSALMS TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES AND INDICES WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS 1956 MICHIGAN SEP 3 wflO PHOTOLITHOPRINTED BY CUSHING - MALLOY, INC. ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1956 EXPOSITIONS ON THE BOOK OF PSALMS. BY SAINT AUGUSTIN, BISHOP OF HIPPO. EDITED, WITH BRIEF ANNOTATIONS, AND CONDENSED FROM THE SIX VOLUMES OF THE OXFORD TRANSLATION, BY A. CLEVELAND COXE, D.D., EDITOR OF THE ANTE-NICENE FATHERS, ETC. EDITOR'S PREFACE. BY SAINT AUGUSTIN, BISHOP OF HIPPO. EDITED, WITH BRIEF ANNOTATIONS, AND CONDENSED FROM THE SIX VOLUMES OF THE OXFORD TRANSLATION, BY A. CLEVELAND COXE, D.D., EDITOR OF THE ANTE-NICENE FATHERS, ETC. EDITOR'S PREFACE. The delightful task of editing these Enarrations, which was what I undertook, became, indeed, a very painful one when the general editor informed me that the whole work must be comprised in a single volume of the series. This allowed but one hundred pages to each one of the six volumes of the Oxford translation. But I felt that my learned friend was right (i) in deciding that St. Augustin's treatment of the Psalms must not be wanting to the series, and (2) that the exposition is so diffuse and digressive, that it readily admits of abridgment, if these exceptional features supply the material for retrenchments. In working out the result, I have " done what I cou

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