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The Finest Patristic, Mystical, and OrthodoxCOMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS
FROM
PRIMITIVE AND MEDIÆVAL WRITERS;
AND FROM THE
Various Office-Books and Hymns
OF THE
ROMAN, MOZARABIC, AMBROSIAN, GALLICAN, GREEK,
COPTIC, ARMENIAN, AND SYRIAC RITES.BY
THE REV. J. M. NEALE, D.D.,
SOMETIME WARDEN OF SACKVILLE COLLEGE, EAST GRINSTEAD,
AND
THE REV. R. F. LITTLEDALE, LL.D.,
SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.
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___________________________________________________From Dr. Neale's Introduction:
"THE mystical interpretation of Scripture, as every one will allow, is the distinguishing mark of difference between ancient and modern commentators. To the former, it was the very life, marrow, and essence of GOD's Word - the kernel, of which the literal exposition was the shell - the jewel, to which the outside and verbal significance formed the shrine...
As I wished to take the Psalms of the Church has taken them, I thought that one of the most valuable sources of assistance would be in the various responses and versicles, the Graduals... and other anthems made from the Psalms... as well as to the Hymns of the Church, which is the most novel feature in my book.
I cannot but hope that the reader will be thankful for having his attention called to some of the magnificent bursts of poetry which are to be found in the Odes and other Troparia of S. John Damascene, S. Cosmas the Melodist, S. Andrew of Crete, S. Theophanes, and even S. Theodore and S. Joseph of the Studium..."
A comment by His Grace, the Rt. Rev'd Bishop BASIL (Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America):
"THANK you so much for your gift of Mr. Neale's first volume of his commentary on the Psalms. You have enriched the Church by having this work reprinted."
A review by Eighth Day Books:
"YOU should not be deprived of the full title: 'Commentary on the Psalms: From Primitive and Medieval Writers; and from the Various Office-books and Hymns of the Roman, Mozarabic, Ambrosian, Gallican, Greek, Coptic, Armenian, and Syriac Rites. Volume I: Psalms I-XXXVIII.' John Mason Neale (1818-1866) was an Anglo-Catholic lover of the ancient Church, a pioneer of authentic ecumenism, hymn writer and translator, biblical and patristic scholar. His commentary on the Psalter was an outgrowth of all these commitments, laying before the reader (as Neale put it) the 'mystical interpretation of Scripture' which he felt had been the rule of the Catholic Church through the ages, but had fallen into neglect in his own time. By 'mystical,' read 'thoroughly Christological' : Neale was concerned to show that the Psalter's constant referent was our Lord. This important reprint of an extremely rare example of Neale's extant work gives us access not only to a prodigious work of scholarship, but to a deeper, traditional approach to the Psalms."
