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Excerpt from The Fifty-First Psalm: And the Encyclopædia Britannica
It was the ancient belief of Jews and Christians that, the titles are as old as the Psalms, either written by their authors, or, at least, not added at some later date and this tradition is confirmed by the facts that some Of the latest Psalms, as the song of the weepers by the rivers Of Babylon, want the titles, and that the Hebrew musical notes in the titles are so Old that, from a remote date, the clew to their meaning has been lost.
On the subject of these inscriptions, it is well remarked by Delitzsch, that the custom which has gained ground since the last decade of the past century, of rejecting what has been historically handed down, has at present grown into a despicable habit Of forming a decision too hastily, which, in any other department Of literature, where the judgment is not so warped by the drift of the inquiry, would be regarded as folly.
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