{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4139","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":7,"verse_to":7},"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>: \"Then I<br/>returned and contemplated futility beneath the sun: a lone and solitary man who<br/>has neither son nor brother, yet there is no end to his toil, nor is his eye<br/>ever sated with riches, nor does he ask himself, 'For whom am I toiling and<br/>depriving myself of goodness.' This too<br/>is futility, indeed, it is a sorry task.\" I turned to<br/>other people and I saw that they work more than is necessary and amass wealth<br/>by good and bad means and do not use it once accumulated; they have all things,<br/>brood over their riches, keep it for another, and do not enjoy their work. Then at the end of their life they have<br/>neither son nor brother, nor close friend so that the pious work seems reserved<br/>for necessities only. And so I<br/>discovered nothing more vain than that man, who collects riches, or to whom an<br/>ignorant man bequeaths them. We are even<br/>able to understand this in a religious interpretation, and understand it as<br/>those, who write books and leave them to fastidious readers. Some say that this passage from where it says<br/>\"there is one, but there is not a second\" is about the Saviour,<br/>because he came down to save the world alone and without any companion. And although there are many sons of God, they<br/>are called his brothers by adoption, though not one remains worthy, who should<br/>be joined to him in this work. There is<br/>no end to this work, for those carrying our faults and sins and suffering for<br/>us; and his eye will not be filled by riches, but always with those desiring<br/>our safety, and the more you see his sins, the more he encourages him to<br/>repent.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"59cde19a344a191c099dc16a04612af0621e3427a25aa8fc8011eda332346583","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4139,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"bf9604ebc767fb9587258e8454d9d19faa75f70c6d1de3cbd57fedac6ec57d6d","translator":null,"work":null}