John Trapp on Psalms 49:8
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Psalms49:8
Verſ. 8. For the redemption of their ſoul is precious] i.e. the price of life is greater than that any man, how wealthy ſoever, can compaſs it. Mony is the Monarch of this World, but not of the next.
And it ceaſeth for ever] i.e. The purchaſe of a longer life ceaſeth, there is no ſuch thing, beleeve it, Job 36.18, 19. Deut. 23.22. Zech. 11.12. To blame then were the Agrigentines, who did eat, build, plant, &c. as though they ſhould live for ever.
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