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Rgf&ctùms ontfieysaims BY C. S. LEWIS The Pilgrim’s Regress The Problem of Pain The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast Broadcast Talks The Abolition of Man Christian Behaviour Beyond Personality The Great Divorce George MacDonald: An Anthology Miracles Transposition and Other Addresses Mere Christianity Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Reflections on the Psalms The World’s Last Night and Other Essays The Four Loves Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer Poems Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories Letters of C. S. Lewis Narrative Poems A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis Present Concerns All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927 FOR CHILDREN The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Prince Caspian The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Silver Chair The Horse and His Boy The Magician’s Nephew The Last Battle FICTION Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra That Hideous Strength Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold The Dark Tower and Other Stories Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis C. S. LEWIS s ontfieJsaCms A Harvest Book Harcourt Brace & Company San Diego New York London Copyright © 1958 by C. S. Lewis Copyright renewed 1986 by Arthur Owen Barfield All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to: Permissions Department, Harcourt Brace & Company, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 58-10910 ISBN 0-15-676248-X (Harvest: pbk.) Printed in the United States of America To Austin and Katharine Farrer CONTENTS I. Introductory I II. “Judgement” in the Psalms 9 III. The Cursings 20 IV. Death in the Psalms 34 V. “ The fair beauty of the Lord” 44 VI. “ Sweeter than Honey” 54 VII. Connivance 66 VIII. Nature 76 IX. A Word about Praising 90 X. Second Meanings 99 XI. Scripture 109 XII. Second Meanings in the Psalms 120 Appendix I— Selected Psalms 139 Appendix II— Psalms discussed or mentioned 149 The Book o f Common Prayer is Crown Copyright. The extracts are reproduced by permission I Introductory This is not a work of scholarship. I am no Hebraist, no higher critic, no ancient historian, no archaeologist. I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. If an excuse is needed (and perhaps it is) for writing such a book, my excuse would be something like this. It often happens that two schoolboys can solve difficulties in their work for one another better than the master can. When you took the problem to a master, as we all remember, he was very likely to explain what you understood already, to add a great deal of information which you didn’t want, and say nothing at all about the thing that was puzzling you. I have watched this from both sides of the net; for when, as a teacher myself, I have tried to answer questions brought me by pupils, I have sometimes, after a minute, seen that expression settle down on their faces which assured me that they were suffering exactly the same frustration which I had suffered from my own teachers. The fellow-pupil can help more than the master be cause he knows less. The difficulty we want him to explain is one he has recently met. The expert met it so long ago that he has forgotten. He sees the whole subject, by now, in such a different light that I
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