AmericanPapist Comments
If I remember right I've seen a 300 year odl copy of it that is in my local state library. Might have only been a visit however
800 AD -- that's Viking raid time in Ireland. Not really super early for Irish books, but definitely impressive as a bog survival.
The specific psalm is what's really moving. There's a long-standing trope in Ireland (as with most Christian nations) of identifying their own vicissitudes with those of Israel.
The psalm it was open to gives me a pretty eerie feeling.
Wow, I read this story yesterday and I immediately looked up Psalm 83.
I'll tell you, there are no coincidences with God. The most chilling parts for me were in the second and third stanzas:
Ps 83:3-4 They are laying plans against your people, conspriring against those you cherish; they say, "Come, let us annihilate them as a nation, the name of Israel shall be remembered no more!" [my emphasis]
Verses 5, 6 They conspire with a single mind, they conclude an alliance against you, the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites . . .
V 8 . . . even Assyria has joined them . . .
Verse 18 is also telling, Let them know that you alone bear the name of Yahweh, Most High over all the earth.
Just read the whole thing!
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