Homilist Psalm 103:16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. I. The autumn wind works GRADUALLY. Blade by blade, the herbs wither under its influence; and leaf by leaf, the tree is stripped of its foliage. Thus on gradually until all is dust. So death works gradually. "We die daily." II. The autumn wind works UNIVERSALLY. It is on all herbage, in all forests, it withers all, sows death everywhere. All are dying, individuals, families, nations, the whole generation. III. The autumn wind works INSIDIOUSLY. Only occasionally does it come with the rush of violence, and scatter the leaves. Quietly, invisibly, insidiously it works. So does death. It is working in their systems when men are utterly unconscious of it. "The wind passeth over it and it is gone." And when the wind of death passeth over us, we are gone, gone for ever. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.WEB: For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more. |
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