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.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
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