THUS impressively, though with singular abruptness, the Shepherd-King commences a funereal and most pathetic psalm. The first verse seems to express the result of a sorrowful meditation on the perils of life, and on the still more affecting trials of ...
THUS impressively, though with singular abruptness, the Shepherd-King commences a funereal and most pathetic psalm. The first verse seems to express the result of a sorrowful meditation on the perils of life, and on the still more affecting trials of virtue. And it is certain that, both in this particular connexion and in a wider aspect, the Psalmist's vow offers to us matter of ample and most seasonable reflection.