repetition of the words, "O Lord, arise," etc., shews that this is the
antiphon to the Psalm "O God, we have heard" (perhaps originally the
whole of Ps. xliv., but now one verse only); (3) the words "O Saviour
of the world," etc., in the Office for the Visitation of the Sick. The
last is the best example: the antiphon connects the recitation of Ps.
lxxi. with the Passion of our Lord; the _intention_ of the Psalm is
thus shewn to be the association of our sufferings in sickness with
{106} the Cross of Christ (_cf._ the second exhortation in the same
office).

D. Helps to the study of the Psalter.

_Literal Meaning_:

Kirkpatrick, in the _Cambridge Bible_ (3 vols.). The Introduction is
extremely useful, and an excellent list of the literature bearing on
the Psalter is also given.

Perowne, _The Book of Psalms_.

Cheyne, _The Book of Psalms_.

Barry, _Teacher's Prayer Book_.

_Mystical and Spiritual Meaning_:

Neale and Littledale, _Commentary on the Psalms_ (4 vols.). This has a
very valuable Introduction on the Psalms as used in the offices of the
Church, and a dissertation (in vol. i.) on the mystical and literal
interpretation of the Psalms.

Walpole, _The People's Psalter_.

_General_:

Prothero, _The Psalms in Human Life_.

Marson, _The Psalms at Work_.

Church, _The Sacred Poetry of Early Religions_, in _The Gifts of
Civilisation_. _The Discipline of the Christian Character_, iii.

Robertson Smith, _The Old Testament in the Jewish Church_, lect. vii.

Orr, _The Problem of the Old Testament_, c. xii.

Alexander (Archbishop), _The Witness of the Psalms to Christ_.

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APPENDIX

_Brief Suggestions as to the Christian Use of each Psalm_

The following suggestions, which follow the lines of the preceding
lectures, do not claim any special authority, except in cases noted,
where the New Testament or the Church's actual use has appropriated a
Psalm to some particular Christian application.

PSALM i. _Beatus vir_

The Church's witness to the blessedness of the life of holiness, based
on obedience to the revealed Word of God (the great example of which is
the life of Christ Himself); with which is contrasted the eternal
failure of the ungodly.

PSALM ii. _Quare fremuerunt gentes?_

Acts iv. 25-28. Easter Day, morning (Prayer Book)

The futile warfare of the princes of this world against Christ and His
Church. The certainty {108} of Christ's victory and His uni