“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
A petition for wisdom: "So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart." The request for divine instruction in mortality becomes the turning point. Awareness of the brevity and limitation of human days is understood as the foundation for wisdom.
Church Fathers on Psalms 90:12
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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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