The Book of Psalms (Classic Reprint)
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Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Book of Psalms The best Introduction to the Psalter is the practice of free and unconstrained private devotion. A bad translation of an uncorrected text will be more illuminative to a devout mind than the choicest and most scholarly rendering to an unsympathetic reader. The Psalter stands alone as a devotional classic of the first rank in virtue of its originality, and only he who is to some extent original in his religious life, and who waits upon the Giver of all good things for impulses and inspirations, can appreciate the freedom and vigour of the expressions and ideas of the Psalms. It is not just to these precious lyrics, however, to re.id them exclusively in a version several centuries old. Exquisite as the Prayer-book version may be, and possibly the Bible version too to ears unfamiliar with the older music, either rendering does but convey that part of the meaning and the charm which was accessible to the men of the sixteenth century. The rhythmic effect of the old versions of the Bible (on which Mr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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