ARGUMENT

ARG. THOMAS. That CHRIST is to be praised in all His Saints by spiritual harmony. The Voice of CHRIST after overcoming the world comforting them that rejoice in His Kingdom. CHRIST showeth praise in all. The Prophet urgeth posterity, as well as the living, to be instant in the duty of song. The Voice of CHRIST after overcoming the world, rejoicing in His Kingdom. Further this last Psalm hath, because of the Decalogue, Praise ye ten times, and because of the four Gospels wherein the LORD is praised, containeth four things, that is, in the Saints, in the firmament, in noble acts, in multitude. Finally, there are eight kinds of musical instruments, because of the eighth day, whereon the LORD rising again from the dead, taught that His Church should rise again in the worldly flesh, and reign with Him in the eighth age, where every spirit, that is, every man, made spiritual, shall praise the LORD.

VEN. BEDE. The City of GOD is counselled, that being gathered out of the compass of the world, it should sing praises to the LORD with voice and mind. This Psalm, lifted up to that harmonious country of All Saints, ought not to have any division, because it hath brought the end of the whole with the might of the indivisible Trinity. Its intention truly is that the LORD should be praised out of the imagination of the Saints. O praise the Lord in His Saints.

SYRIAC PSALTER. Anonymous. An exhortation to general praise of those things which are written and sealed by the SPIRIT.

EUSEBIUS OF CÆSAREA. A general exhortation to a hymn.

S. ATHANASIUS. A Psalm declaring praise. Also, of glorying in the LORD.