The Messages of the Psalmists

by John Edgar McFadyen

Publisher:

Charles Scribner’s Sons

, 1904

Overview

The Psalter will live as long as men are moved by the impulse to praise and pray. It anticipates and expresses the profoundest emotions of the spirit. Its simple, penetrating words have a strange power over the human heart, and, in the more solitary moods of the soul, it can touch to thoughts too deep for tears.

In The Messages of the Psalmists, John Edgar McFadyen has categorized the Psalms by subject and paraphrased them in the following chapters:

• Introduction
• Psalms of Adoration
• Psalms of Reflection
• Psalms of Thanksgiving
• Psalms in Celebration of Worship
• The Historical Psalms
• The Penitential Psalms
• The Royal Psalms
• Psalms Concerning the Universal Reign of Jehovah
• The Book of Lamentations

Praise for the Print Edition

The arrangement is convenient, and it reveals the scope of the religious thought of the ancient Israelite when his soul was holding intercourse with God.

—Princeton Theological Review

Product Details

• Title: The Messages of the Psalmists
• Author: John Edgar McFadyen
• Series: The Messages of the Bible
• Volume: V
• Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
• Print Publication Date: 1904
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 334
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Psalms › Paraphrases
• Resource ID: LLS:MESPSALMIST
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-06-20T13:40:14Z

About John Edgar McFadyen

John Edgar McFadyen (1870–1933) was a Scottish theologian, linguist, and professor of literature and theology at the University of Glasgow. He also translated several Old Testament books into “modern speech” and was a proponent of the international auxiliary language, Esperanto.