A commentator to my previous posting claims that the interpretation I give is not based on the literal meaning of the psalm, but only on an allegorical one, and he makes an appeal to St. Thomas Aquinas for a teaching that the sense of Scripture must always be based on the literal.
It is certainly true [...]

A meandering dispute has broken out in Mark Shea's blog concerning Biblical interpretation. Like most discussions there, it ends in no single or firm conclusion, but trickles out in patches of both fertile and infertile soil. As individual stand-ins for a host of issues are the usual passages: Psalm 137's apparent call for the dashing [...]