The Psalms thus exemplify and embody the actual “authority” of scripture in its specifically Christian sense. (See Scripture and the Authority of God.) Scripture is not simply a reference book to which we turn to look up correct answers—though it’s full of those when we need them. Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us. And if that is true of scripture as a whole (and, in the New Testament, of the Gospels as a whole), we might say that the very
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