The Psalm
is alphabetical. Eight stanzas commence with one letter, and then another eight
with the next letter, and so the whole psalm proceeds through the twenty-two
letters of the Hebrew alphabet. This sacred ode is a little Bible, the
Scriptures condensed, rewritten in holy emotions and actions. Blessed are they
who can read and understand these saintly aphorisms; they will find golden
apples and come to reckon that this psalm, like the whole Scripture which it
praises, is a pearl island, or, better still, a garden of sweet flowers.
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