1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Sirach 18:8 | *The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years: as a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the sand, so are a few years compared to eternity. Psalm 89:10. | Years. Seneca fixes on the same number; (Brev. Vitae. 3.) Macrobius on seventy, for the life of man; which nearly agrees with the author of Psalm 89:10. (Haydock) --- It seldom happens that people exceed 70, or 100 years. But what is this compared with eternity? (Calmet) --- Greek, "a hundred years are many....so are a thousand years in the day of the age," or of aionos, eternity. (Haydock) (Psalm 89:4., and 2 Peter 3:8.) |