uke and blasphemy" as our own.

Thus while we recognise in the Psalter the expression, put into our
lips by the Holy Spirit, of our own personal struggles and joys and
sorrows in the spiritual life, while we remember with awe and gratitude
that the {100} Eternal Son of God Himself here speaks and prays and
suffers as one of us, we shall find here also the voice of our
corporate consciousness, our life and worship as citizens even on earth
of that "Jerusalem which is above, which is the mother of us all."

And so as we conclude every Psalm in the Church's service with the
_Gloria_, with that confession of our faith which prophets and kings
would fain have known and knew not, let us lift up our hearts and give
glory to the Father, Who has revealed to us His Name; glory to the Son,
Who has vouchsafed in all things to be made like unto us His brethren;
glory to the Holy Ghost, Whose word and power in the Church is undying,
Who is still bringing forth from the ancient treasury old things which
are ever new.

Gloria Patri, et Filio:
Et Spiritui Sancto.
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper:
Et in saecula saeculorum.
Amen.

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

[2] vi., xxxii., xxxviii., li., cii., cxxx., cxliii.

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

[4] Evelyn's Diary: Dec. 25, 1657.

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

[6] Gibbon, _Decline and Fall_, c. xxiii.

[7] "Consider her palaces" (R.V.).

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NOTES

A. The extent to which the Psalms were used liturgically by the Jews
in Temple and Synagogue is not at all fully known. The following list
of uses is interesting in itself, but probably does not by any means
cover the whole field. And it seems certain, from the free and natural
way in which the Psalms are referred to in the New Testament, that,
even if a comparatively small number were used in the public services,
the Psalter must have been very familiar indeed to the pious Jew of our
Lord's time and have formed practically his book of private devotion.

DAILY IN THE TEMPLE (AND PROBABLY ELSEWHERE):

_First day_. Ps. xxiv. The earth is the Lord's, etc.

_Second day_. Ps. xlviii. Great is the Lord.

_Third day_. Ps. lxxxii. God standeth in the congregation.

_Fourth day_. Ps. xciv. O Lord God, to Whom vengeance belong