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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:3

Psa 90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Ver. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction ] Ad minutissimum quiddam, so Beza rendereth it, to a very small business, to dust and powder. Others, ad contritionem vel contusionem, by turning loose upon him various diseases and distresses; thou turnest him out of the world, Ecclesiastes 1:13 . And generally, thou sayest of all and singular sons of men, Return, ye ] Your bodies to the earth, according to the... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:4

Psa 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night. Ver. 4. For a thousand years in thy sight, &c. ] q.d. Live men a longer or shorter space, Serius aut citius, thou endest their days; and in comparison of thine eternity, Puncture est quod vivimus et puncto minus, it is a small span of time that the longest liver hath upon earth, 2Pe 3:8 Psalms 39:5 . Non multum sane abest a nihilo. Some would hence infer, that the day of... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:5

Psa 90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up. Ver. 5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ] Suddenly, violently, irresistibly, by particular judgments, besides that general necessity of dying once, Hebrews 9:27 . This is set forth by a treble comparison, of floods, sleep, and flowers here; and indeed the vanity and misery of man’s life is such, as cannot sufficiently be set forth by any similitudes. See... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:6

Psa 90:6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. Ver. 6. In the morning it flourisheth ] So doth man in his prime and vigour, his bones full of marrow, his breasts of milk. In the evening it is cut down ] So is man by death’s mortal scythe, which moweth down the lilies of the crown as well as the grass of the field. In the evening grass will cut better, and the mowers can better work at it. read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:7

Psa 90:7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Ver. 7. For we are consumed by thine anger ] Justly conceived for our sins, Psalms 90:8 . This is a cause of death that philosophy discovereth not, as being blind, and not able to see far off, and therefore cannot prescribe any sufficient remedy against the tear of death, such as is here set down, Psalms 90:12 , but such as made Cicero complain, that the disease was too hard for the medicine, and such as left men... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:8

Psa 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance. Ver. 8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee ] As a judge doth the misdeeds of a malefactor, together with the proofs and evidences. Our secret sins ] Which we either never took notice of or had utterly forgotten (the sins of our youth, some render it, but not so well), those sins which we had hoped to have secreted, such was our hypocrisy. In the light of thy countenance ] This light... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:9

Psa 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told]. Ver. 9. For all our days are passed away ] Heb. do turn away the face. See Psalms 90:3 . We spend our years as a tale that is told ] The grace whereof is brevity, q.d. dicto citius. Some render it, as a thought, that ariseth and passeth. To this sense the Greek poet; Aιφα γαρ ωστε νοημα παρερχεται αγλαυς ηβη . The Chaldee hath it, Ut flatus oris in Hyeme, as the breath of one’s mouth in... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:10

Psa 90:10 The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Ver. 10. The days of our years are threescore, &c. ] So Solon in Laertius saith, the term of man’s life is seventy years, this few exceed, and fewer attain to. To the same sense speaketh Macrobius also (Lib. 1., Som. cap. 6), saying, Septies deni anni a Physicis creditur meta vivendi, et... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:11

Psa 90:11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath. Ver. 11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? ] None doth, since it is such as no man can either avoid or abide; and such is men’s stupidity, that few will believe till they feel it; no, though their lives be so short and uncertain. Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath ] Ira tua non est minor timore nostro; let a man tear thee never so much, he is sure to feel thee much more, if once he... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:12

Psa 90:12 So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom. Ver. 12. So teach us to number our days ] The philosopher affirms, that man is therefore the wisest of creatures, because he alone can number, Bruta non numerant. But in this divine arithmetic of numbering our days (to the which all other is not to be compared, no, though we could, as Archimedes boasted, number the stars of heaven, or the sands by the sea shore), God himself must be our teacher, or we... read more

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