Commentary on Psalms - Volume 1

The Book Of Psalms, viewed merely as a poetical composition, has very high claims on our attention. Men of the most refined and cultivated taste have often been attracted to the study of it from the poetical beauties with which it abounds, and have admitted, in this respect, the superiority of its claims. The greatest of our English poets [1] thus speaks of these sacred songs: "Not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition, they may be easily made appear ov...