Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 102:23

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 260, footnote 8 (Image)

Athanasius: Select Writings and Letters

Defence of His Flight. (Apologia de Fuga.) (HTML)

Defence of His Flight. (Apologia de Fuga.) (HTML)

The Lord's hour and time. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1455 (In-Text, Margin)

Now as these things are written in the Scriptures, the case is clear, that the saints know that a certain time is measured to every man, but that no one knows the end of that time is plainly intimated by the words of David, ‘Declare unto me the shortness of my days[Psalms 102:23].’ What he did not know, that he desired to be informed of. Accordingly the rich man also, while he thought that he had yet a long time to live, heard the words, ‘Thou fool, this night they are requiring thy soul: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?’ And the Preacher speaks confidently in the Holy Spirit, and says, ‘Man also knoweth not his ...