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The Church Fathers · 392–418

Expositions on the Psalms

Enarrationes in Psalmos

Augustine of Hippo · 354–430

What it is

The only complete patristic commentary on all one hundred and fifty psalms, mostly preached, reading them as the voice of the whole Christ — head and body — speaking together.

Why it lasted

Augustine's longest work and the deepest well of Western psalm interpretation.

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