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Editorial footnote · Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment), Psalm XXVI, editorial note cite_note-3 · Original source
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Psalm XXVI
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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Placitum non collocabo.
Editorial footnote · Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment), Psalm XXVI, editorial note cite_note-3 · Original source
5. “I have hated the congregation of evil doers.” But to arrive at this council of vanity, congregations of evil doers are formed, which I have hated. “And I will not sit with the ungodly” (ver. 5). And, therefore, with such a council, with the ungodly, I will not sit, that is, I will not place my consent. “And I will not sit with the ungodly.”
[We are “made unto our God, priests.”—C.]
Editorial footnote · Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment), Psalm XXVI, editorial note cite_note-5 · Original source
6. “I will wash mine hands amid the innocent” (ver. 6). I will make clean my works among the innocent: among the innocent will I wash mine hands, with which I shall embrace Thy glorious gifts. “And I will compass Thy altar, O Lord.”