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  • adjective being two more than seventy

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Examples

  • -- Nor does Ps.lxxii. apply to Solomon, whose faults Christians shudder at.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • It is somewhat remarkable that it is to be found in neither prophet, although Justin Martyr, in his dialogue with Trypho, [chap.lxxii. and notes, Dial. with Trypho, in this volume,] brings it forward as an argument against him, and directly accuses the Jews of having fraudulently removed it from the sacred text.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • In the like strait another time, see what a miserable conclusion he draws of all his being exercised under the hand of God; Ps. lxxii.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Lord Christ that his kingdom in this world should endure "throughout all generations," with the course of the sun and moon, Ps. lxxii.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Lord Christ said to "come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth," Ps. lxxii.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • The reader may be referred to the Life of Dr Owen (vol.i. p. lxxii.) for a general criticism on the merits of the following treatise.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • Ps.xlv. and lxxii. compared, which give an account of their apprehensions concerning him.

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • Whoever added the subscription to Psalm lxxii. can hardly have been aware of the eighteen psalms which, in the subsequent books of the Psalter, are ascribed to David; nor is it natural to suppose that the Asaphic (l.) and Korahitic psalms (xlii. -xlix.) stood in the second book when that subscription was written.

    Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen

  • Messianic King of popular yearning; and possibly (cf. lxxii.) a psalm which originally contemplated a historical king may have been in later times altered or amplified to fit the features of the ideal king.

    Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen

  • Psalter is divided into five books, whose close is indicated, in each case, by a doxology (xli., lxxii., lxxxix., cvi.), except in the case of the last psalm, which is itself a doxology (cl.).

    Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen

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