Some of the psalms, the 24th, for instance, were evidently alternated between the priest and the people. Among the various suppositions concerning the meaning of the word "'Selah," one is that it is the sign of a great chorus-shout of the people. See also 1Sa 18:6; Ne 9; Ezr 3:...
All these passages will be found extracted in the Christian Remembrancer, 1842, p. 676-683; and although the first editors of the Speculum seem to have misunderstood Augustine's meaning (Simon, Hist.Critique), it is beyond a doubt that the verses in the Speculum (one of which was "...
CONTEXT. Paul’s main subject in this section of Romans is the sovereignty of God in salvation. God, and God alone, is the one who decides who will be saved and who will perish. “He has mercy (unto salvation) on whom He desires, and He hardens (unto condemnation) whom He desires”...
meaning to the form itself — the form of words in which such service was rendered, and thus, certainly before the middle of the fifth century, we find in the Church, in the present sense of the word liturgies, forms for the conducting of public worship and the administration of ...