The Eternal God's Response to Man's Cry in His Passing “Days” and “Years” (Ps 90)

• Authors: Henryk Witczyk

Title variants

IT

The Eternal God's Response to Man's Cry in His Passing “Days” and “Years” (Ps 90)

PL

The Eternal God's Response to Man's Cry in His Passing “Days” and “Years” (Ps 90)

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

In Ps 90, the poet expresses his perception of man's time as marked by dynamic of passing away, fear of death, destruction, and futility. At the same time, he speaks of God's “eternity” as “You are” (v. 2). He discovers the astonishing influence of “eternity” on “time.” The prayer of the “servants” makes the distant God (full of anger and indignation – v. 11) come close to them and act in their fleeting time to evoke His “mercy,” “steadfast love,” “joy” “glorious power,” thereby making time “stable” and “permanent” (v. 17). This is anchored in God's eternity, even in God's “You are” (v. 2). In the short and transient “days” and “years” of His “servants” and their “sons,” God writes an intense experience of His eternity. The extraordinary coexistence, even the interpenetration of time and eternity in the experience of the believer (people), is perhaps the most crucial theological intuition of Ps 90.

Keywords

EN

eternity, time, man’s time, days and years, Ps 90

PL

eternity, time, man’s time, days and years, Ps 90

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: The Biblical Annals
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 533-562

Dates

published

2020-05-17

Contributors

author

Henryk Witczyk

• Instytut Nauk Biblijnych KUL

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/biban.6851