When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
17. "Thou with rebukes hast chastened man for iniquity; Thou hast made my life to consume away like a spider" (ver. 11). There is much that is discerned by this Idithun; by every one who discerns as he does; who overleaps as he does. For he says, that he has fainted in God's corrections; and would fain have the stroke removed away from him, "because it is He who made him." Let Him renew me, who also made me; let Him who created me, create me anew. But yet, Brethren, do we suppose that there was no cause for his fainting, so that he wishes to be "renewed," to be "created anew"? It is "for iniquity," saith he, "that Thou hast chastened man." All this, my having fainted, my being weak, my "crying out of the deep," all of this is because of "iniquity;" and in this Thou hast not condemned, but hast "chastened" me. "Thou hast chastened man for sin." Hear this more plainly from another Psalm: "It is good for me that Thou hast afflicted me, that I might learn Thy righteousness." I have been "a...
Spider. St. Jerome, "moth. "Symmachus, "thou dissolvest like corruption his desirable thing "(Haydock) which means the soul, (Berthier) or "beauty. "(Protestants) Remorse of conscience and God's judgments make a man pine away.
Disquieted is obelized in the Septuagint. (St. Jerome, ad Sun.) (Calmet)
It is not found in the Alexandrian and Comp. edition (Haydock) and seems to be taken from ver. 7. It does not alter the sense. (Berthier)
"Man is vanity always. "(St. Jerome)
As a spider which has consumed its moisture, so he decays. (Worthington)
