{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4039","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>Cosmas Indicopleustes</b>: And Solomon says: The sun ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place. Arising he goeth there towards the south and wheeleth round in his circuit, and the wind goeth on its circuits. He also, in what he says, agrees with Moses and David, namely, that the sun proceeding from the east ascends to the south, and by making a circuit through the north, causes the tropics, and completes the great circle of the year in his passage through the air; for this is what the expression the wind goeth on means, as if he said, in the air.<br/><i>— The Christian Topography, Book 9</i></p><p><b>Cosmas Indicopleustes ((quoting Severianus of Gabala, Hexaemeron))</b>: By the blessed Solomon then, when in the book of Ecclesiastes, a book attested [to be inspired], and not rejected [from the canon] he says: The sun ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place; arising there he goeth to the south, and wheeling in his circuits, wheels towards the north; the wind goeth and turneth about in its circuits. Behold then the sun running his course in the south, and wheeling round to the north, and be instructed.<br/><i>— The Christian Topography, Book 10</i></p><p><b>Didymus the Blind</b>: The sun of righteousness rises in the soul. The beginning of its rise is preparatory. It is a preparatory enlightenment. But when it circles around the whole soul and enlightens it altogether so that nothing is outside the light any more, then the soul is in perfect enlightenment. For often it sets in order to rise again. Sunset and sunrise are in accordance with its progress. And sunset and sunrise are united with respect to its location. The second enlightenment means sunset with respect to the previous enlightenment, but it means sunrise with respect to the enlightenment now beginning.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Ecclesiastes 13:12</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: \"The sun<br/>rises and the sun sets, then it rushes to its place, where it rises again.\" The<br/>sun itself, which is given as light for mankind, shows the orbit of the world<br/>by its rising and it setting every day. <br/>After the sun has soaked its burning orb in the ocean, it returns by<br/>routes unknown to me to that place whence it had come; and when the period of<br/>night is over, it again bursts out quickly from its bed. In place of \"rushes to its place\"<br/>though, because we are following the Vulgate version, the Hebrew reads \"\"soeph\"\" which Aquila interpreted as \"eispnei\" in Greek, that is \"pants [Hier.. \"aspirat\"]\";<br/>Symmachus and Theodotion write '\"returns\"'<br/>because the sun clearly turns around to its original place and it aspires to<br/>return there, from whence it had come earlier. <br/>But all of this is explained so that he can teach that with the passage<br/>of time and the rising and the setting of the stars man's age slips away and<br/>perishes, yet he does not know this for certain. Another meaning of this is: the sun of<br/>righteousness, in whose wings lies reason, rises from those who fear and sets<br/>midday in the false prophets. But when<br/>it has risen it takes us to its place. <br/>Where is that? Evidently it means<br/>to the Lord himself, for it happens that he raises us from the earth to heaven,<br/>saying, \"when the son of man is lifted up, he will lift up all things to<br/>him\". [John 12, 32.] Nor is it surprising that the son lifts up<br/>men to himself, when even the Lord himself lifts up to his son: \"for no<br/>one\", he says \"comes to me except the Father, who sent me, draw<br/>him\". [John 6, 44.] That sun therefore, which we have said sets<br/>for some and rises for other, and once set for Jacob the patriarch as he was<br/>leaving the Holy Land, rose again for him when he entered the promised land<br/>from Syria. When Lot too left Sodom and<br/>came to the city, which he was commanded to hasten to, he climbed a mountain<br/>and the sun came out above Segor [Cfr. Gen. 28, 11; 32, 31.].<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p><p><b>Olympiodorus of Alexandria</b>: The great sun, when compared with the Sun of righteousness, is vanity.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Ecclesiastes 1:5</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"820e3bc2ed2322cbbf8e6357367c5c7149c1a6670e169acc296a27009d40cd7d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4039,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"124f75373d288a1e600f3ad8d786659f04e3f6071503a134edc3fd590efe0377","translator":null,"work":null}