For a thousand yeers in thy sight are but as yesterday] 2 Peter 3:8. Though man think his life long, which is indeed most short, yea, though it were a thousand yeers, yet in Gods sight it is as nothing, psal. 39. 5. and as the watch, that lasteth but three hours, Mark 13:35. when it is past] Or, when he hath passed them. He addeth this, because men think of the shortnesse of their time when it is past, rather then when it is passing.