ARGUMENT

ARG. THOMAS. That CHRIST sets the Church, redeemed by His Blood, above the waves of the world. The voice of the Church after Baptism. Concerning the beginning of the Church in which the princes of idols are excluded, and the King of the same Church enters therein, and of the confirmation of the believing people. The gates of which he speaks are sins, or the gates of hell. Also the voice of CHRIST concerning the Gentiles and concerning the Church.

VEN. BEDE. The first of the Sabbath signifies the LORD’s Day, which is the first day after the Sabbath; on which day the LORD arose from the dead. And because the whole Psalm is sung after the Resurrection, therefore this title is well fitted to admonish the hearts of the faithful. After the Resurrection of the LORD, the Prophet, becoming more joyful, addresses the human race, then labouring with various superstitions: defining in the first part that the universal orb of the world was the LORD’s, and as no one was excepted from His empire, so none should believe anything opposed to His faith, The earth is the Lord’s. In the second place determining with what virtues they are endued who are set in His Church: Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Thirdly, he speaks most kindly to the superstitious that, turning to the service of the true GOD, they would depart from their harmful perversity: Lift up your gates, O ye Princes, &c.

EUSEBIUS OF CÆSAREA. A prophecy of the vocation of the Gentiles, and the perfection of them who are saved.

SYRIAC PSALTER. Concerning the first day in which the LORD began to form creation.

ARABIC PSALTER. A prophecy of the vocation of the Gentiles and the Resurrection.