Catechesis Notes for the Week —Psalm 107:17-32—Psalm of Thanksgiving for God’s Help—“The 107^th psalm is a psalm of thanks for the help that God shows to all people in their distress, whether they are Gentile or Jew. This help the heathen have sought by various idols and we Christians and heathen have sought by various saints [in the past] (and to a great extent still do)…We have thus divided all of God’s help among the saints, as the heathen among their idols, and have stolen and robbed from God—to whom alone this psalm is dedicated and to whom alone the psalm calls on us to thank.” Martin Luther, Reading the Psalms with Luther.

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