Bible Encyclopedia: Man: Compared to Grass

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The Glory of the Trinity
... You can look neither at the sun in the sky, nor at the grass beneath your ...
diamond"if such a thing were possible"so is the mind of man compared with that ...
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Psalm LXXII.
... undecaying timbers, because He is the everlasting fruit, all the glory of a man
according to the temporal exaltation of the world is compared to grass; for by ...
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The Objects of Prayer
... of beauty the physical beauty of woman or child or man. ... is according to the prophet's
language compared to a flower, "All people are grass, their constancy ...
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Man and Machinery.
... is evident in the fibres of the grass-blade and ... sympathy to-night"was in nothing
that man had achieved ... splendor, all the skill, were nothing compared with one ...
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Aron, Brother of Moses, 486, 487.
... Temptation, of the Lord threefold, [991]32; sets forth three classes of man's
temptation, [992]32; can be overcome only ... Ungodly, compared to grass, [1025]174 ...
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Psalm LIV.
... hidden with us?" That Saul was persecutor of the holy man David, very ... For observe
to what flower their glory is compared: "All flesh is grass, and the ...
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Abraham, his Trial in Egypt; his Humility
... Glory, human, the subject of envy, [708]393; a load of grass, [709]ib ... on the summit
of heavenly wisdom, [1025]308; his lot and the rich man's compared, [1026]324 ...
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The Divine Hunger and Thirst
... is written, 'And Noah was a just man, and perfect ... flows out unto the smallest blade
of grass beneath thy ... poor and paltry thine own life is, compared with what ...
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The Second Part.
... wilt see the honour of the tree, the grass is dried ... the same also he hath writ at
the end: "Man, though he was in honour, understood not, was compared to the ...
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2 Samuel xxiii. 1-7.
... Messiah, especially when those Psalms are compared which refer to ... nature is, and
what is in man, to have ... without clouds; by brightness, by rain,"grass out of ...
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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
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1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass wither, and the flower thereof falls away:
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