{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4153","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Didymus the Blind</b>: Regarding the literal interpretation: No one is lord, owner and ruler over a field that lies fallow where thorns and thistles grow; but the field that is well tilled has a king. Thereby the owner is called a king.…When the defenders of the teaching that God's providence rules over everything argue that there is providence, they generally say, Like a weave clearly shows that there is a weaver—whether or not he is seen—in the same way he who sees a well tilled field gets the impression that it has someone who leads and rules over it.…<br/>When you, therefore, see a soul that is well tilled, that sows with tears and is ready to reap with shouts of joy, then this tilled field has a king, the Logos, who leads, rules and reigns.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Ecclesiastes 145:2</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: \"A lover<br/>of money will never be satisfied with money; a lover of abundance has no<br/>wheat. This too, is futility! As goods increase, so do those who consume<br/>them; what advantage, then, has the owner except what hi eyes see?\" Wherever we read 'silver', according to the ambiguity<br/>of the Greek term, it can be translated as 'money', since each has the meaning<br/>of the Greek \"argurion. \"More precisely Tullius is said to have<br/>called these men 'pecuniary', who have many small savings, that is wealth in<br/>cattle. [(because the Latin for cattle is pecus)] For they were called this in antiquity. But little by little the word devolved into<br/>the one used here through misuse. <br/>Therefore he is described as greedy because he is never sated by wealth,<br/>and the more he has, the more he desires. <br/>Horace also agrees with this sentiment, who says, \"always the miser<br/>is wanting\" [Horat. Epist. I. 2, 56.],<br/>and too the noble historian, since \"avarice is diminished neither by<br/>possessions, nor by lack of them\" [Sallust Catil. 11, 3.]. Nothing therefore, says Ecclesiastes can aid<br/>a man who possesses riches, unless only this: that he sees what he<br/>possesses. For the greater his wealth,<br/>the more he will have a larger number of servants, who use up his amassed<br/>wealth. But if he will only see what he<br/>has, he will be able to take more than the food of one man.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1075c74929a42f269bbad8653ab06010e96652a03924fb55ae5749295e7db7cb","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4153,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"05ac0080ccd1259c996870e1b59e75ddac8b28490a96e44b217e6a5136e3be78","translator":null,"work":null}