{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4106","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":15,"verse_to":15},"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>: \"So I<br/>said to myself: the fate of the fool will befall me also; to what advantage<br/>then have I become wise? But I concluded<br/>that this, too, was vanity. For there is<br/>no comparison between the remembrance of the wise and of the fool at all, for<br/>as the succeeding days roll by, is all forgotten? How can the wise man's death be like the<br/>fool's? \"I have stated that the wise man and the fool, the<br/>righteous and wicked are destined to die by the same fate and all wicked things<br/>in this world will suffer a similar fate; what profit is there for me then,<br/>that I have sought wisdom and worked more than others? On reconsidering the matter and applying<br/>myself to it diligently I saw that my opinion was unfounded. For the wise and foolish will not have<br/>similar remembrance in the future when the end of the world comes; and they<br/>will be confined for no reason by equal death because the wise man will<br/>continue to the joys of heaven and the fool to his punishment. The Septuagint translates the meaning of the<br/>Hebrew here more clearly, for it doesn't necessarily follow the Hebrew word<br/>order: \"and to what purpose have I become wise?\" Then I said to myself copiously, (for the<br/>fool is he, who speaks too much), 'for this is also vanity, because there is no<br/>remembrance of the wise with the fool for ever, and so on.' Since he tried to convince us that his prior<br/>thoughts were foolish, he bore witness that he had spoken foolishly, and that<br/>he had erred, and it was by doing this that he realised his folly.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"7ee2fbc54be73d51fe580db5d7f11ff6a6972018782c3d8ae0cc8c9d081c8e06","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4106,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c277c663e928f308214cc068ceaa60676c9d8f786a42935879d394eab6bc2a63","translator":null,"work":null}