“For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.”
The divine perspective on time: "For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night." The compression of a millennium into a single day or night watch establishes the vast difference between divine and human temporal experience. What seems long to mortals is instantaneous from God's perspective.
Church Fathers on Psalms 90:4
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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