M. : Moscow Compound of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra, 2000. The Psalm is the silence of the soul, the giver of peace; it soothes rebellious and anxious thoughts; it soothes the irritability of the soul and survives intemperance. Psalms - mediator of friendship, unity between the distant, reconciliation of the warring . These interpretations are dominated by the moral application of the Psalms to the understanding of the commoner people; sometimes allegorical deviations are allowed; Sometimes the speaker focuses on the historical moment, explains the titles of a particular psalm, or turns to grammatical analysis of the text. - Archimandrite Cyprian (Kern),