The continued lives of Joshua and Caleb, who followed the Lord fully, make remarkably apt illustrations of this Psalm, for they, as a reward for abiding in continued nearness to the Lord, lived on "amongst the dead, amid their graves." For these reasons it is by no means improbable that this Psalm may have been written by Moses, but we dare not dogmatize. Many expressions here used are similar to those of Moses in Deuteronomy, and the internal evidence, from the peculiar idioms, would point towards him as the composer. The Jewish doctors consider that when the author's name is not mentioned we may assign the Psalm to the last named writer and, if so, this is another Psalm of Moses, the man of God. TITLE.-This Psalm is without a title, and we have no means of ascertaining either the name of its writer, or the date of its composition, with certainly.
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