On the Psalms.

 The book of Psalms contains new doctrine after the law of Moses. And after the writing of Moses, it is the second book of doctrine. Now, after the dea

 OnPsalm II . From the Exposition of the Second Psalm, by the Holy Bishop Hippolytus.

 OnPsalm XXII. Or XXIII . From the Commentary by the Holy Bishop and Martyr Hippolytus, on “The Lord is My Shepherd.”

 On Psalm XXIII. Or XXIV . From the Commentary by the Same, on Ps. xxiii.

 On Psalm CIX. Or CX . From the Commentary by the Same on the Great Song.

 On Psalm LXXVII. Or LXXVIII .

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On the Words in Psalm cxxxix. 15: “My Substance or (Bones) Was Not Hid from Thee, Which Thou Madest in Secret.”

It is said also by those who treat of the nature and generation of animals, that the change of the blood into bone is something invisible and intangible, although in the case of other parts, I mean the flesh and nerves, the mode of their formation may be seen. And the Scripture also, in Ecclesiastes, adduces this, saying, “As thou knowest not the bones in the womb of her that is with child, so thou shalt not know the works of God.”31 Eccles. xi. 5. But from Thee was not hid even my substance, as it was originally in the lowest parts of the earth.