Psalm 90:10 (WEB)
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
Fathers and councils · 9
Augustine of Hippo
““The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is more of them but labour and sorrow” (ver. 10).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…nearly 150, and some time after, Moses 120, and men now seventy or eighty, or not much longer, of which years it is said, “their strength is labor and sorrow.”” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 10.
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Basil the Great
““The days of our years,” says the Psalmist.” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 10.
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John Chrysostom
“For it is said, “the days of our years are seventy years; but if [one be] in strength, fourscore years.” ( Ps. xc. 10 ; [LXX. lxxxix. 10].)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“…of Psalms: “the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow.”” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 10.
Read the whole comment“David tells you how long a time you can look for: “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.”” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 10.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For it is written, “The days of our life in them are threescore years and ten, but if they are in strength, fourscore years, and what is more than these is labour and sorrow.”” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 10. LXX.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“At last, after a life of almost a hundred years, exceeding David’s limit of our age, forty-five of these, the average life of man, having been spent in the priesthood, he brought it to a close in a good old age.” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 10.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And that will be to reign.”” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 9, 10.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.
Cited together in The City of God XV.14.
Cited together in The City of God XV.14.
Cited together in The City of God XV.14.
Cited together in The City of God XV.14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 10.