Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 2. Before the mountains were brought forth ] The mountains and hills appear to have been everlasting; but as they were brought forth out of the womb of eternity, there was a time when they were not: but THOU hast been ab aeternitate a parte ante, ad aeternitatem a parte post; fram the eternity that is past, before time began; to the eternity that is after, when time shall have an end. This is the highest description of the eternity of God to which human language can reach.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - It is supposed that this psalm refers to the sentence passed on Israe in the wilderness, Nu 14. The favour and protection of God are the onl sure rest and comfort of the soul in this evil world. Christ Jesus is the refuge and dwelling-place to which we may repair. We are dyin creatures, all our comforts in the world are dying comforts, but God is an ever-living God, and believers find him so. When God, by sickness or other afflictions, turns men to destruction, he thereby calls men to return unto him to repent of their sins, and live a new life. thousand years are nothing to God's eternity: between a minute and million of years there is some proportion; between time and eternit there is none. All the events of a thousand years, whether past or to come, are more present to the Eternal Mind, than what was done in the last hour is to us. And in the resurrection, the body and soul shal both return and be united again. Time passes unobserved by us, as with men asleep; and when it is past, it is as nothing. It is a short an quickly-passing life, as the waters of a flood. Man does but flouris as the grass, which, when the winter of old age comes, will wither; but he may be mown down by disease or disaster.
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