Primary source · Latin
Expositions on the Psalms (Enarrationes in Psalmos)
Augustine of Hippo · AD 392–420
What this text is
The whole psalter preached through — Christ and church as one voice, the two cities in every verse, and the martyrs (Crispina above all, 'whom all Africa knows') as the psalms made flesh.
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Public-domain translations
A. Cleveland Coxe (NPNF, 1888)
Who knows not the most blessed Crispina? — whom all Africa knows: she was of noble birth and most wealthy; her flesh was tender, her heart was strong. (On Psalm 120.)
Manuscript witnesses
Medieval tradition of the Enarrationes
8th c. onwardThe complete psalter preached and dictated over thirty years.
Provenance
Hippo and Carthage, AD 392–422 — the longest single work of Latin antiquity
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Enarrationes in Psalmos (CCSL 38–40)E. Dekkers & J. Fraipont, 1956The critical edition.
- Expositions of the Psalms (WSA III/15–20)Maria Boulding, 2000–2004The complete modern English translation.