{"id":574,"date":"2009-11-24T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2013-06-20T12:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:16:46","slug":"the-church%e2%80%99s-esteem-of-the-psalter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"The Church’s Esteem of the Psalter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I continue to enjoy greatly Rowland Prothero’s book, The Psalms In Human Life<\/a>\"\", where he the use of the psalms through the history of the church.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are a couple of quotes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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“From the treasure-house of the Psalter, whether in the ancient Latin version, or in vernacular prose, or in rough rhyme wedded to simple music, Roman Catholics and Protestants alike drew inspiration.The Psalms clave to the memories, and rooted themselves in the hearts of the people.”\u009d (p. 114)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Quoting Casaubon, a Huguenot scholar:<\/span><\/p>\n

“This is the peculiarity of the Psalter, that everyone can use its words as if they were completely and individually his own.”\u009d (p. 142)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I continue to enjoy greatly Rowland Prothero’s book, The Psalms In Human Life, where he the use of the psalms through the history of the church. Here are a couple of quotes: “From the treasure-house of the Psalter, whether in the ancient Latin version, or in vernacular prose, or in rough rhyme wedded to simple …<\/p>\n

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