Ver. 23.—'For behold, my short years pass away, and I walk the path by which I shall not return.' 31. The brevity of life mitigates and consoles its miseries.—Everything that passes is short, even if it seems to be ended somewhat slowly. And we walk upon the path of death, by which we do not return, not because we are not brought back to the life of the flesh by rising again, but because we do not come again to the labours of this mortal life, nor to the acquiring of rewards by labours.