{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4044","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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>: \"Is<br/>there anything whereof it may be said, see this is new? It has already been for<br/>ages, which were before us. \"Symmachus translated this more clearly:<br/>\"Do you think there is a man who is able to say: look this is new, it has<br/>already been done before because it was before us.\" But he agrees with his predecessors that<br/>there is nothing new in the world, and that there is none that is able to live<br/>and say: 'look this is new', since everything that he thought he had shown to<br/>be new, already existed in former times. <br/>But we ought not to think that the signs, prodigies and the many deeds<br/>which are done for the first time by God's judgement in the world today, have<br/>already been done before in former ages, or that it was Epicurus who found<br/>this, asserting that these same things were done in innumerable periods and in<br/>these places and by these same men. <br/>Besides, both Judas betrayed \"repeatedly\"<br/>and Christ \"often\" suffered for us; and<br/>other things which have been done and will be done, are continually repeated in<br/>these times. But it could be said too,<br/>that those things, which will be done have already been done, decided out of<br/>foreknowledge and the predestination of God. <br/>For those who have been chosen in Christ before the constitution of the<br/>world existed already in previous times.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"15328de5a4eac09a7bc5a8019f34cf1cbc56395e0744975000965b59458be759","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4044,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"51745dd5996734dc29aebf8d015cfabcfe17abc9652c99660d2f79195c22f8a1","translator":null,"work":null}