“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.”
God's eternality is contrasted with creation: "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God." The cosmic perspective establishes that God's existence precedes and transcends all creation. The repetition of temporal infinity (everlasting to everlasting) emphasizes the incomparable span of God's being.
Church Fathers on Psalms 90:2
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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