A

COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS :

FROM

PRIMITIVE AND MEDIEVAL WRITERS

AND FROM THE

Various Office-books and Hymns

OF THE

ROMAN, MOZARABIC, AMBROSIAN, GALLICAN, GREEK, COPTIC,
ARMENIAN, AND SYRIAC RITES.

BY Mason, 1818-1866

THE REV. J. M. NEALE, D.D.,

SOMETIME WARDEN OF SACKVILLE COLLEGE.

VOL. I.

PSALM I. TO PSALM XXXVIII.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET,

AND NEW BOND STREET.

NEW YORK: POTT AND AMERY.

MDCCCLXIX.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY JOSEPH MASTERS AND SON,

ALDERSGATE STREET.

TO THE AUTHOR OF

"THE CHRISTIAN YEAR,"

RAISED UP

BY GOD'S PROVIDENCE

TO PERFORM THE SAME OFFICE

FOR THE ENGLISH,

THAT COSMAS EFFECTED FOR THE EASTERN,

AND

ADAM OF S. VICTOR FOR THE WESTERN,

CHURCH,

This Commentary

IS

MOST RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY

DEDICATED.