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Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment) — Historical footnotes

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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1888 (historical English edition preface; transcription printing date uncertain) | Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)

Placitum non collocabo.

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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.”

1888 (historical English edition preface; transcription printing date uncertain) | Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)

[We are “made unto our God, priests.”—C.]

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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.”