The Frailty of Human Nature
Homilist
Psalm 78:39
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passes away, and comes not again.


I. The frailty of human nature IMPRESSIVELY DESCRIBED. Two terms are used —

1. "Flesh"; not granite, iron, or even oak, but a sentient, weak, constantly-dissolving organism.

2. "Wind."

(1)  Mysterious. "We know not whence it cometh, or whither it goeth."

(2)  Fleeting. Wind is a rapid wave of air that rolls over you and is gone. A vapour, a shadow, wind, such are the symbols of life.

II. The frailty of human nature DIVINELY REMEMBERED. This being so —

1. He will not require from us more than we are able to render.

2. He will not lay upon us more than we are able to endure.

(Homilist.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

WEB: He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.




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