Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 47

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 424, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm LXXXVIII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4071 (In-Text, Margin)

1. The Title of this eighty-seventh Psalm contains a fresh subject for enquiry: the words occurring here, “for Melech to respond,” being nowhere else found. We have already given our opinion on the meaning of the titles Psalmus Cantici and Canticum Psalmi:[Psalms 47] and the words, “sons of Core,” are constantly repeated, and have often been explained: so also “to the end;” but what comes next in this title is peculiar. For “Melech” we may translate into Latin “for the chorus,” for chorus is the sense of the Hebrew word Melech. …The Passion of our Lord is here prophesied. Now the Apostle Peter saith, “Christ also suffered ...