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What is mankind, and what purpose do they serve? What is their good, and what is their evil?
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Verse 8. Years. Seneca fixes on the same number; (Brev. Vitæ. 3.) Macrobius on seventy, for the life of man; which nearly agrees with the author of Psalms 89:10. Bible.—It seldom happens that people exceed 70, or 100 years. But what is this compared with eternity? Calmet.—Greek “a hundred years are many … so are a thousand years in the day of the age,” or of αιωνος, eternity. Bible. Psalms 89:4 and 2 Peter 3:8.
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