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Excerpt from Commentary on the Psalms, Vol. 1
In quite other directions tend the general errors by which v. Lengerke's work (1847) and then that of Justus Olshausen have been carried away; but in their pernicious character they are in nowise second to the former. He who has such confused notions of the height and depth of true religion, can as little correctly value the historical as the poetical element of the Psalms; and he who deals with Hebrew in the arbitrary manner of Olshausen, is not made for a happy expounder of these songs. The very freedom of judgment which he takes upon himself, and is able within Evangelical Christianity to assume, becomes the greatest misfortune to him. I have, however, elsewhere,1' said enough of the later of these two works.
And what shall be said of Hupfeld's work in four volumes, which, behind the most baseless pretensions, conceals so arrant an ignorance of language and history, - and with a tasteless, dry intelligence thinks to be able to deface the sense, the strain and artistic quality of Biblical poetry, and by self-created oblique doubts, and pale negations, to obliterate every better understanding that has been gained; and fears not to introduce vain, evil words and thoughts 1 The Psalms, meanwhile, are happily a hundredfold better, and their explanation is at present much more secure than the expositor of today would make them.
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