Yesterday, the news reports that medieval copy of the partial Psalms was found in an Irish bog.
Interestingly, :
Lets read that and learn something….. Psalm 83.
But wait – that’s not right. Psalm 83 is not what they are talking about….. Hmmm.
Thinking, thinking…..
Oh, this explains it.
Protestants. Now why would they be running around 500 years before Luther, re-numbering this little book of Latin Psalms and adding all that flowery language? I mean the copyist who wrote it was obviously Catholic, as there was no other Christian choice available at the time. But the MSM references a Protestant source. Confuses me. Maybe Seamus the scribe was a good Catholic, but a dyslexic and changed the numbers? Maybe the MSM made it all up?
Just goes to show you – don’t believe everything you find on the web – like Protestant Bible references to an obviously Catholic work.
Here’s what they really found – Psalm 82 (latin included)
The interesting thing to me in all this is a deeper question – Why are the numberings different in the two Bibles. (Bonus Points is you can spell Proto-Canonical).
It’s still pretty inspiring to think of Israel’s history, however, be it Psalm 82 or 83. I’m sure that they’ll do just fine in their current trials.
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