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The Nature of the Psalms

athanasius-the-great_webAll of the Psalms have been spoken and arranged by the Spirit so that the emotions of our soul may be understood in them according to what was written before-time, and so that all of them may have been written as about us and become our very own words, for a reminder of our emotions and a corrective of our conduct. Those things the psalmists have said are types and characterizations of us.

Athanasius — Letter to Marcellinus 12.
from Inheriting Wisdom by Everett Fergusion; pp. 141-142

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