[29]Matthew Arnold’s _Progress_. These lines were altered, much for the worse, in later editions. [30]Martineau’s _Hymns for Church and Home_ (Preface). [31]Ps. lxxxi. 1 (P.B.V.). [32]St. Augustine on Ps. lviii. [33]Ps. lxviii. 20 (R.V.), ‘God is unto us a God of deliverances.’ [34]Exod. xv. ‘The song is, of course, incorporated by E from an earlier source, perhaps from a collection of national poems.... Probably, however, the greater part of the song is Mosaic, and the modification or expansion is limited to the closing verses; for the triumphant tone which pervades it is just such as might naturally have been inspired by the event which it celebrates.’—Driver’s _Literature of the Old Testament_. [35]Wordsworth’s _Ode to Duty_. [36]Edward Irving’s _The Book of Psalms_, Works, i. p. 410. [37]Cheyne. [38]Cheyne. [39]Kirkpatrick’s _Psalms_ (Cambridge Bible). [40]Irving’s Introduction to Horne’s _Psalms_, Works, vol. i. p. 416 (slightly abridged). [41]The _Holy Year_, p. xxxviii. The Bishop refers in a note to ‘one modern hymn, beginning, “My God, the spring of all my joys,” and consisting only of twelve (_sic_) lines, in which the pronouns _I_ and _my_ occur no less than eleven times.’ He might have added that in the twelve lines of Ps. xxiii. personal pronouns occur seventeen times, and that ‘My God’ occurs fifty-eight times in the Psalter. [42]There are, of course, Psalms of the Old Testament not included in the Psalter admirably adapted for Christian worship. See Part II. of Dr. Barrett’s _Congregational Church Hymnal_. [43]‘We have been especially glad to mark the essentially metrical structure of the Lord’s Prayer in St. Matthew’s Gospel, with its invocation, its first triplet of single clauses, with one common burden, expressed after the third but implied after all, and its second triplet of double clauses, variously antithetical in form and sense.’—Westcott and Hort, Introduction, p. 320. [44]W.H., Introduction, p. 320. [45]‘_Adfirmabant autem, hanc fuisse summam vel culpae suae vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato die ante lucem convenire, carmenque Christo, quasi deo, dicere secum invicem._’—Pliny, _Ep._ x. 97. [46]Eusebius: _Ecclesiastical History_, x. 28 (Bohn’s translation). [47]Eusebius, vii. 24. [48]_Confessions_, ii. pp. vi., vii. [49]Trench’s _Sacred Latin Poetry_, pp. 81, 82. [50]‘Most old MSS. read _munerari_. The common reading, “_in gloria numerari_,” does not appear to be found in any MSS., but is in many (not all) printed editions of the Breviary from about 1491 onwards. Mr. Gibson suggests that it is not so much due to the natural confusion of letters as to the well-known words added by Gregory the Great to the canon of the Mass _in electorum tuorum jubeas grege numerari_.’—_Dictionary of Hymnology_, p. 1121. [51]Cf. Pss. xxxiii. 22; xxxi. 1; lxxi. 1 (P.B.V. & R.V.).