“Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.”
Fear of divine wrath: "Who considers the power of your anger? Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due to you." The incomprehensibility of God's wrath becomes parallel to the fear God deserves. Those who truly fear God understand the severity of divine judgment.
Church Fathers on Psalms 90:11
1. This Psalm is entitled, “The prayer of Moses the man of God,” through whom, His man, God gave the law to His people, through whom He freed them from the house of slavery, and led them forty years through the wilderness. Moses was therefore the Minister of the Old, and the Prophet of the New Testament. For “all these things,” says the Apostle, “happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the world come.” 1 Corinthians…
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