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The Insults of the Enemy

The psalmist recalls how the enemy has insulted the Lord and prays against their pride.

Remember this: the enemy has insulted the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked Your name.1 Psalm 74.2 18. The pride of those who hate You keeps rising forever. Verse 33.✦ The Egyptians will say: He led them out cunningly. Exod.3

The Judgment in the Wilderness

The Canaanites and Egyptians accuse God of failing to bring His people into the land, leading to their death in the wilderness.

31.✦ 12. so that he might kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the earth.✦ The Canaanites will say: He could not bring the people into the land he had sworn for,✦4 Therefore he killed them in the wilderness.✦

From the Good That Follows

A brief heading that turns from judgment to the good that God brings about.

From the side of the good that follows.5

Glory of the Name

A prayer for deliverance for the glory of God's name and a promise of perpetual praise.

Glory to Your name. Lord, deliver us for the glory of Your name.✦ We, Your people, will give You thanks in✦6 age after age, from generation to generation.✦7 we will proclaim Your praise.✦8 Verse.9 13.✦

The Conversion of Others

A heading introducing the theme of teaching sinners and their return to God.

The conversion of others.

Teaching the Wicked

The psalmist vows to teach God's ways to sinners so that they may turn to Him.

I will teach the wicked Your ways, and the ungodly will turn to You.✦ Ps.10 11.11 13.12

Example of Mercy

A heading introducing the example of Paul's reception of mercy.

Example.

Paul's Pattern of Patience

Paul explains that he received mercy so that Christ might show His perfect patience as an example for all who believe.

But I received mercy for this reason: so that in me first Christ Jesus might show all his patience, as a pattern for those who will believe in him for life.1314 eternal.✦15 1 Tim.16 1. 16.

Read the original Latin

Memor esto hujus: Inimieus improperavit Domino, et populus insipiens incitavit nomen Tuum. Psal. l]xxiv. 18. Superbia eorum qui Te oderunt ascendit semper. Ver. 33. Dicent /Egyptii; Callide eduxit eos, Exod.

xxxi. 12. ut interficeret in montibus et deleret e terra. Dicent Chananzi; Non poterat introducere populum in terram pro qua juraverat,

idcirco occidit eos in solitudine.

EX PARTE CONSEQUENTIS BONI.

Gloria nominis. Propter gloriam nominis Tui, Domine, Libera nos. Nos populus Tuus confitebimur Tibi in. szculum : In generationem et generationem

annunciabimus laudem 'Tuam. Ver. 13.

Conversio aliorum.

Docebo iniquos vias Tuas, et impii

ad Te convertentur. Psa/. 11. 13.

Exemplum.

Sed ideo misericordiam consecutus sum, ut in me primo ostenderet Christus Jesus omnem patientiam ad informationem eorum qui credituri sunt Illi in vitam

sternam. 1 77m. i. 16.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.74.23 — Do not forget the voice of your adversaries, the tumult of those who rise against you, which ascends continually.
  2. ↩Exod.32.12 — Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger and relent concerning the disaster against your people.
  3. ↩Exod.32.12 — Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger and relent concerning the disaster against your people.
  4. ↩Num.14.16;Deut.9.28 — Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he slaughtered them in the wilderness. Deut.9.28 — Lest the land from which you brought us out say, 'Because the LORD was unable to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.'
  5. ↩Num.14.16;Deut.9.28 — Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he slaughtered them in the wilderness. Deut.9.28 — Lest the land from which you brought us out say, 'Because the LORD was unable to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.'
  6. ↩Ps.79.9 — Help us, O God of our salvation, for the sake of the glory of your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for your name's sake.
  7. ↩Ps.79.13 — Then we, your people and the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.
  8. ↩Ps.79.13 — Then we, your people and the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.
  9. ↩Ps.79.13;Ps.80.13 — Then we, your people and the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise. Ps.80.13 — Why have you broken down its wall, so that all who pass along the way pluck it?
  10. ↩Ps.78.13;Ps.80.13 — He split the sea and led them through, and made the waters stand like a heap. Ps.80.13 — Why have you broken down its wall, so that all who pass along the way pluck it?
  11. ↩Ps.51.15;Ps.51.13 — Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you. Ps.51.13 — Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
  12. ↩1Tim.1.16 — But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, as a pattern for those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source reads Inimieus; translated as Inimicus (enemy), the standard Vulgate reading at Ps 74:18.
  2. 2 ↩Source fragment l]xxiv. is treated as Roman numeral lxxiv (74), with OCR corruption around the numeral.
  3. 3 ↩Source has /Egyptii; the leading slash is treated as print/OCR noise.
  4. 4 ↩Source Chananzi taken as Chananaei (Canaanites); form looks like a print/OCR variant.
  5. 5 ↩Scholastic heading: ex parte = 'on the part/side of'; consequentis boni = genitive of 'the good that follows/results.' Rendered as a clear section heading rather than opaque technical Latin.
  6. 6 ↩confitebimur can mean confess, acknowledge, or give thanks/praise; in this psalm-response setting, ‘give You thanks’ is the intended public praise sense, not confession of sin.
  7. 7 ↩Normalized reading treats corrupt szculum as saeculum (OCR/type error for sæculum/saeculum), completing in saeculum from the previous sentence.
  8. 8 ↩Source has a stray apostrophe before Tuam (`laudem 'Tuam`); treated as laudem Tuam.
  9. 9 ↩Ver. treated as liturgical abbreviation for Versus/Versiculus (‘Verse’), not Latin ver (‘spring’).
  10. 10 ↩Source 'Psa/.' is a truncated Psalm citation rubric (Psalmus/Psalm), not prose; rendered as the modern abbreviation 'Ps.'
  11. 11 ↩Bare numeral likely a psalm or verse reference in the prayer apparatus; left as printed rather than expanded.
  12. 12 ↩Bare numeral likely a psalm or verse reference in the prayer apparatus; left as printed rather than expanded.
  13. 13 ↩Latin informationem is the Vulgate’s ‘pattern/example for instruction,’ not modern ‘information.’
  14. 14 ↩The sentence ends at in vitam; the usual Pauline continuation is in vitam aeternam (‘for eternal life’). Rendered from the supplied text only.
  15. 15 ↩Source reading 'sternam.' is almost certainly a corruption of 'aeternam,' completing the previous sentence's 'in vitam' as 'in vitam aeternam' (1 Tim. 1:16). Rendered as the intended adjective 'eternal.'
  16. 16 ↩Source '1 77m.' is a typographically corrupted abbreviation for '1 Tim.' (1 Timothy), matching the citation pattern used in neighboring sections.

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