{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4087","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"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>Jerome</b>: \"And moreover, because the preacher was wise,<br/>he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out,<br/>and set in order many proverbs. The<br/>preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was<br/>upright, even words of truth. \"The wisdom in which Solomon judges all kinds<br/>of men he now professes at the end, because he was not happy with the use of<br/>the old law, but therefore immersed himself in trying to solve difficult<br/>problems of his own accord, and in teaching people; he composed parables and<br/>proverbs, which say one thing superficially and yet have a deeper meaning. For proverbs often have different meaning to<br/>that which is written, and this is the method used in teaching in the Gospels,<br/>since the Lord spoke to the people in parables and in proverbs [Cfr. Matth, 13; 15.],<br/>but He explained them to the apostles in secret. From this we clearly get the Book of<br/>Proverbs, and we shouldn't think that they are but simple stories with<br/>teachings, but rather as gold still in the earth, as a seed within a nut, or as<br/>a fruit is found inside the hairy covering of its peel. Thus we must search for another meaning in<br/>them which pertains to God. Before this<br/>though he mentions that he desired to know the workings of the world and the<br/>wisdom and mind of God. He wanted to<br/>know why one thing or another should happen, as David after the death of the<br/>body and spirit hoped he would see the path to heaven, saying, \"I will see<br/>the heavens, the work of your fingers\" [Ps. 8, 4.]. But now Solomon strives to find this wisdom,<br/>so that he may know and understand with his human mind, though confined by the<br/>walls of the body, the truth only known by God.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d7b69ec64965e647e287a6debed894b331311c0538835d2473f86331d9808f1f","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4087,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b2ec618b3750dc6d8bd1398906889b8bfd1f6a87c31e77057100885e3100b50d","translator":null,"work":null}