{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4203","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>Jerome</b>: \"This is<br/>an evil about all things that are done under the sun: that the same fate awaits<br/>all Therefore the heart of man is full of evil; and madness is in their heart<br/>while they live; and after that, they go to the dead. \"Symmachus interprets this in his usual<br/>clearer way, saying, \"but even the heart of mankind is filled with<br/>wickedness and impudence like their heart in life\". But all of them succumb to death, for who is<br/>able to continually live forever? The<br/>Scripture has the same meaning regarding this. <br/>I said a little earlier, that when both good and bad things happen<br/>equally to everyone, there is no difference between good and bad, for we are<br/>taken from this life by indiscriminate death. <br/>Nonetheless we are filled with wrongdoings and impudence and wickedness,<br/>and after all these trials in life we are suddenly taken by death and<br/>afterwards we cannot consort with the living. <br/>Or indeed it could mean this: since the same difficulties afflict both<br/>the just and the unjust, men are therefore provoked to commit sins. Then after he has tried all things, which are<br/>done in vain, while he is unknowing, he descends to the world of the dead. \"For<br/>he who is attached to all living has hope, a live dog is better than a dead<br/>lion.\"<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"034a1e5221c856fd1c82b26fe2e6b8dc3ff96bcbba8f34cfd38c8d29910c3991","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4203,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"4660774ac05ab0ac9ba64b2536503e9f78e3bc45a499c2cc415c9a6a11cac6a8","translator":null,"work":null}