“Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.”
Premature aging: "You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame." The abbreviation of life and the covering with shame suggest both mortality and dishonor. The youth that should have been a time of vigor becomes a time of diminishment.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:44
1. Understand, beloved, this Psalm, which I am about to explain, by the grace of God, of our hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, and be of good cheer, because He who promised, will fulfil all, as He has fulfilled much: for it is not our own merit, but His mercy, that gives us confidence in Him. He Himself is meant, in my belief, by “the understanding of Æthan the Israelite:” which has given this Psalm its title. You see then, who is meant by Æthan: but the meaning of the word is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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