Long ago - See this passage fully explained in the notes at Hebrews 1:10-12. In the beginning; at the first. The phrase used here means lite…

I said, O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days: your years are throughout all generations. Of old you have laid the foundations …

But you are the same
That has created them, as the Targum adds; or "you are he" ^F8 , the everlasting I AM…

Bodily illnesses soon weaken our strength, then what can we expect but that our months should be cut short; and what should we do but prepare accor…