There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Ver. 20. There shall be no more thence an infant of days.] This verse, as some others, had been easy, had not commentators made it so knotty. There shall be no more thence - that is, from Jerusalem Isa 65:19 - an infant of days, or a child for days; viz., that shall so die by an untimely death, for longevity is the blessing here promised.
Nor an old man that hath not filled his days.] That hath not lived his utmost, satur dierum, as Abraham.
For the child shall die an hundred years old,] i.e., He that is now a child, shall live till he be so many years old. Note this against those that otherwise understand the words, and have therehence fished out many frivolous crotchets too long here to be related.
But the sinner, being an hundred years old, a shall be accursed.] And the more accursed because so long lived, and yet dieth in his sin, going down to the grave with his bones full of the sins of his youth. See Ecclesiastes 8:12,13. See Trapp on " Ecc 8:12 " See Trapp on " Ecc 8:13 "
a Hinc proverb, Puer centum annorum.