De Profundis (3)
Neale now begins his detailed commentary with verse 1:
Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord, Lord, hear my voice.
[Neale indicates his authorities by sigla in the margin. The following
paragraph bears the siglum A, indicating that it is taken from
Augustine - no doubt the Enarrationes in Psalmos. There is also a
mention of "Hugo Card." which I cannot find explained in Neale's
apparatus.]
"This Psalm, eleventh in number of the Graduals, sixth of the
Penitentials, and consisting of eight verses, is meant to teach us,
they say, that no man can so live throughout the perfect time of his
working life here, denoted by the six week-days of creation, as not to
transgress the moral law of God laid down in the Decalogue, and so to
pass on to eleven, the symbol of evil; but that by persevering in
penitential supplication to God, the sinner may reach at last that
octave of the Resurrection, when Christ shall redeem Israel from all
his sins."
Oriens.
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