Antichrist and the enemies set aside.

(1) Psalms 9:and s. give the theme.

(2) Psalms 11:-xv:exercises of the remnant under the oppression of the enemy.

The ninth and tenth psalms are given by the Septuagint and Vulgate as one psalm, and also by a very few Hebrew MSS. no doubt, for the reason that they are bound together by their structure, forming together an imperfect and irregular alphabetic acrostic. Bp. Horsley and others have supposed on this account some confusion in the text, and have endeavored by a rearrangement of the verses to" supply the missing letters; even then with only partial success. The irregularity and omissions are clearly designed. The omission of six letters after the commencing lamed in the tenth exactly corresponds with the description of the wicked one.

The remnant-psalms are again five in number, as in the last section ; a number speaking of what is emphatically human, as elsewhere noticed.