tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701676398897115116.post732369315697085943..comments2024-02-21T17:07:33.447+11:00Comments on Psallam Domino: Masterpost: The Seven Penitential PsalmsKate Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000040465724868745noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701676398897115116.post-37041772209606880592017-09-23T20:04:13.498+10:002017-09-23T20:04:13.498+10:00Dear Father,
In fact if you go on and take a look...Dear Father,<br /><br />In fact if you go on and take a look at the very first post in the series, you will see that it actually opens with a quote from that commentary.<br /><br />Personally, I found it a bit of a rambling commentary, albeit with some useful insights - but I much prefer St Augustine. But for the record, there are actually two even earlier commentaries written in English, one by the fourteenth century mystic Richard Rolle, the other a translation from a medieval french commentary by Dame Eleanor Hull (c1370-1454). At some point I plan to come back and update these notes (and provide more detailed notes for the psalms not treated verse by verse) using it, as it has some lovely material in it. Seems to have been a bit of a favourite theme in early English devotional literature!Kate Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01000040465724868745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701676398897115116.post-90646450064877634892017-09-23T08:36:59.670+10:002017-09-23T08:36:59.670+10:00Saint John Fisher wrote a commentary on the seven ...Saint John Fisher wrote a commentary on the seven penitential psalms. Ignatius Press published a translation into modern English. It is one of the first scripture commentaries to have been written in English. Fr PJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597780307057121375noreply@blogger.com