COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF PSALMS. BY JOHN CALVIN. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN, AND COLLATED BY THE REV. JAMES ANDERSON. VOLUME FIFTH. EDINBURGH : PRINTED FOR THE CALVIN TRANSLATION SOCIETY. M.DCCC.XLIX. [Entered at Stationers' Hall.] AN 438 ARY EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. IN bringing to a close his labours on CALVIN'S COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS, the Editor begs leave to state, that in addition to the GENERAL INDEX, and the INDICES OF TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE and of HEBREW WORDS, originally contemplated, it has been deemed highly desirable to give at the end of the Commentary a TRANSLATION OF CALVIN'S VERSION OF THE PSALMS arranged in parallelisms, together with a TABLE OF THOSE PASSAGES IN THE PSALMS WHICH ARE QUOTED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, and a TABLE OF THE PARTICULAR SUBJECTS OF EACH PSALM, according to CALVIN'S interpretation. These additions, it is hoped, will be considered as improvements. From the extent to which they have increased the size of this Volume, it has been found necessary to omit the Appendix of Additional Criticisms to which reference is made in some of the footnotes throughout the work. To exhibit the PSALMS arranged in the metrical order, was an idea which appears never to have suggested itself to the mind of CALVIN. In his time, indeed, and long after it, the peculiar character of HEBREW POETRY was not understood. It was not till a recent period that any steady light was thrown on the laws of its composition. A vast amount of learning had |