John Trapp on Psalms 78:39-40

Verſ. 39. For he remembred that they were but fleſh] i. e. Frail and feeble, full of ſin and miſery. (See Gen. 6.3.) altogether unable to grapple with Gods wrath.

A wind that paſſeth away, &c.] Et in ſuis reciprocationibus evaneſcens. For Winds neither return thither whence they blow, nor yet paſs from one coaſt to another, but are waſted in the middle of the World, by the force of the Sun, and by their own motion, as Ariſtotle concludeth in his Diſcourſe concerning Meteors. Now, what is man (ſaith Nazianzen) but ſoul and ſoyl, breath and body; a puffe of Wind the one, a pile of Duſt the other, no ſolidity in either?

Verſ.Exclamatio pa[illegible: 1 letter]hetica. 40. How oft did they provoke him in the Wilderneſs?] Ten times at leaſt in the firſt two years, Num. 14. & 19. What then in all the reſt? Quis fando poſſit enacrare tot rebelliones. From the very day they came out of Aegypt, they were alway contending againſt the Lord, as Moſes telleth them, when he was taking his leave of them, Deut. 31.

And grieve him in the Deſart] Where they were at his mercy, and at his immediate finding.