“In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.”
The day's cycle mirrors mortality: "in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers." The daily cycle of grass growth and death becomes a microcosm of human life. The repetition emphasizes the inevitability of decline.
Church Fathers on Psalms 90:6
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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