Psalm 39:5 (WEB)
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
Fathers and councils · 12
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.50Book VII
“Who has given so severe an estimate of the life of the human soul here on earth, as he who says: “Verily every man at his best estate is altogether vanity?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 5.
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Jerome
“xxxix. 5.” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nyssa
“As saith also great David, with a true insight into human weakness, “Mine age is as nothing unto Thee,” not saying that it is absolutely nothing, but signifying, by this comparison to the non-existent, that what is so exceedingly brief is next to nothing at all.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 5. LXX. ὑπόστασίς μου (not αἰ& 240·ν, which would be the exact equivalent to the Heb.).
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Augustine of Hippo
“Behold, Thou hast made my days old, and they pass away, and in what manner I know not.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 5.
Read the whole comment““Behold, thou hast made my days old” (ver. 5).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“He distinguishes them from the days of this life, of which he speaks as follows, “Behold, Thou hast made my days as it were a span long,” which are not, because they stand not, remain not, but change in quick succession: nor is there a single hour in them in which our being is not such, but that…” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 4, 5.
Read the whole comment““For I lying, stuck fast in the deep mire,” in another Psalm also have cried out, “Behold, Thou hast made my days old;” in these days of mine have I called upon Thee.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 5.
Read the whole comment“For the whole life of temptation in the human race is a stage play; for it is said, “Every man living is altogether vanity.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 5.
Read the whole comment“…down the soul, we shall see “face to face,” as the apostle says—(for it is said in the Psalms, of this life, “Verily every man living is altogether vanity;” and again, “For in Thy sight shall no man living be justified;” and in this life also, according to John, “It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we…” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 5
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Ambrose of Milan
“For me the knowledge of the mystery of His generation is more than I can attain to,—the mind fails, the voice is dumb—ay, and not mine alone, but the angels’ also.” — editor's note: Ps. cxxxix. 5.
Read the whole comment“And so David also explained why he hastened to the end, when he said: “Behold Thou hast made my days old, and my being is as nothing before Thee, surely all things are vanity, even every man that liveth.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. [xxxviii.] 5 [LXX.].
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Well hath inspired David discoursed of our frailty, and again in these words, “Let me know the shortness of my days;” and he defines the days of man as “of a span long.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 4, 5.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Confessions XI.22.
Cited together in Confessions XI.22.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Confessions XI.22.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Confessions XI.22.