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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 279: What Does, Sing Psalms Intelligently, Mean? (R. 110)
What in foods the perception of the quality of each kind of food is, that intelligence is in the case of the words of Holy Scripture. ‘For the throat tastes foods and the mind discerns words.”2 If then a man is affected in his soul by the power of each word in the same way as he is affected in taste by the quality of each food, such a man has fulfilled the commandment which says: “Sing psalms intelligently.”3
Notes
- Ps. xlvii. 7.
- Job xii. 11. B. inverts the clauses as given by Sw.
- Ps. xlvii. 7.