[This and the next Psalm are a prelude to the great Psalm of the expiation which is to follow.—C.]
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Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment) — Historical footnotes
Psalm XX
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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1. This is a well-known title; and it is not Christ who speaks; but the prophet speaks to Christ, under the form of wishing, foretelling things to come.
“Sion,” “beholding,” p. 13, ver. 6.
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3. “Send Thee help from the Holy, and from Sion defend Thee” (ver. 2). Making for Thee a sanctified Body, the Church, from watching safe, which waiteth when Thou shalt come from the wedding.