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Psalm XXV
Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.
English translation and editorial credits: Original anonymous translator (first thirty Oxford Psalms), A. Cleveland Coxe (abridgment).
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[Here our author, as did St. Chrysostom, treats true contrition as completed by pardon, without sacramental absolution.—C.]
Editorial footnote · Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment), Psalm XXV, editorial note cite_note-7 · Original source
11. “For Thy Name’s sake, O Lord, Thou wilt be favourable to my sin; for it is manifold” (ver. 11). Thou hast not only forgiven my sins, which I committed before I believed; but also to my sin, which is manifold, since even in the way there is no lack of stumbling, Thou wilt be made favourable by the sacrifice of a troubled spirit.
[Alphabetical Psalm.—C.]
Editorial footnote · Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment), Psalm XXV, editorial note cite_note-2 · Original source
To the end, a psalm of David himself.
[So the dying Jacob, Gen. xlix. 18.—C.]
Editorial footnote · Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment), Psalm XXV, editorial note cite_note-9 · Original source
21. “The innocent and the upright have cleaved to me, for I have waited for Thee, O Lord” (ver. 21). The innocent and the upright, not in bodily presence only, as the evil, are mingled with me, but in the agreement of the heart in the same innocence and uprightness cleave to me: for I have not fallen away to imitate the evil; but I have waited for Thee, expecting the winnowing of Thy last harvest.