Bible Dictionary: Man: Days of, Compared to a Shadow

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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What is Man?
... What is it but a point, a cipher, compared to that which is filled by him that is
All in all? ... 1. The days of man, since the last reduction of human life ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 103 what is man.htm

Of the Sacrifices Offered to God by the Saints, which are to be ...
... so, because he lives by faith,"will any man say this ... regards its freedom from sin,
can be compared to no ... then certainly be, "as in the primitive days, and as ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 26 of the sacrifices offered.htm

The Pietist and the Perfectionist.
... the days of the ancient Pharisee, Jerusalem, compared with Rome ... of God's children
is identified with the new man. But during the days of our earthly life this ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xi the pietist and the.htm

Book Three the Story of his Student Days in Carthage, his ...
... to me to be quite unworthy to be compared with the ... These people should see that in
one man, one day, and ... But men, whose days upon the earth are few, cannot by ...
/.../augustine/confessions and enchiridion/book three the story of.htm

Question of the Comparison Between the Active and the ...
... He remembereth that we are dust: man's days are as grass, as the ... is destined for
action, as man is compared to woman ... as the right procedure is for a man to pass ...
/.../on prayer and the contemplative life/question clxxxii of the comparison.htm

Psalm CXLIV.
... 5. "Man is made like unto vanity: his days pass away ... But all these things, being
earthly, fleeting, transitory, if they be compared to that Truth, where ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm cxliv.htm

Their Rock and Our Rock
... futility of their objects of trust, when compared with that ... and mercy shall follow
me all the days of my ... save me unto His heavenly kingdom.' What man who has ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/their rock and our rock.htm

South -- the Image of God in Man
... his health, and perhaps to spin out his days and himself ... the fire to which it is
so often compared, it is ... Sighs may exhaust the man, but not eject the burden. ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons vol 2/south the image of.htm

Thy Rod and Thy Staff they Comfort Me.
... is fallen away."(54) To the natural man all this ... They have realized that our days
here, though few and fast ... What are the trials of earth when compared with the ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/callan/the shepherd of my soul/viii thy rod and thy.htm

Demas
... Compared with the joys of holy living, what was the world with all its attractions? ...
It was asked in the days of Malachi, "Will a man rob God?" as if ...
//christianbookshelf.org/milligan/men of the bible some lesser-known/demas.htm