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Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 73:4

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Psalms73:4

4 For there are no bands in their death , but their strength is firm .

They are not dragged to Death, neither by the Hand and Sentence of the Magistrate, which yet they deserve; nor by any lingring and grievous Torments of Mind or Body, which is the Case of many good Men; but they enjoy a sweet and quiet Death, dropping into the Grave, like ripe Fruit from the Tree, without any Violence used to them. Compare Iob 5. 26. and 21. 13.

Heb. and their strength is fat, (i. e.) Sound and good: the best of any thing being called Fat in Scripture, as Gen. 41. 2. D[illegible: 1+ letters]n. 1. 15. And in their Life-time, they have great Ease and Health, and Content, till they expire like a Lamp, meerly for want of Moysture.

Marginal references: Heb. Fat.

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