{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4077","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"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>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: As he doth, in the first place, express the delight of carnal things, and pronounceth it to be good to cast away all care, and to eat and drink: so afterward, with reason and judgment doth he reprove that, when he saith that it is better to go unto the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: and though he saith that a young man ought to rejoice in his youth, yet doth he utter that as proceeding from the resolution of a carnal mind; seeing afterward, by definitive sentence, he reproveth both youth and pleasure, as vain things. Again there we find it written: O young man, rejoice in thy youth: and yet a little after is added: for youth and pleasure be vain things. Seeing, therefore, he doth afterward reprove that for vain, which before he seemed to allow: plainly doth he declare that he spake those words as it were of carnal concupiscence, and the other of a right and true judgment.<br/><i>— Dialogues, Book 4, Chapter 4</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: \"Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let<br/>your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your<br/>heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know, that for all these things God<br/>will bring you into judgement. Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put<br/>away evil from your flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity. \"In this chapter there were many explanations<br/>of all things and almost as many opinions as men themselves. It would take too long however to recount all<br/>the opinions of everyone and their arguments in which they want to prove their<br/>opinions, the matter would require a volume to itself. But it is enough for wise men to have shown<br/>what they feel, and like in a small picture, to have depicted the thirst of the<br/>earth, the waste of the whole earth, and the belt of the ocean, and to have<br/>shown them in such a small collection.<br/>The Hebrews believe the imperative here refers to Israel, to whom it is<br/>taught that she should enjoy her riches, and before the time of bondage comes<br/>should change youth to old-age. She should enjoy whatever is pleasant or fun,<br/>just as it seems to the heart so it seems to the eyes; at that time while she<br/>still has them to hand. She knows<br/>however that she will be judged in all things that she has done. And just as from bad thoughts she flees from<br/>desires, knowing that foolishness is joined to youth, and will remember always<br/>her Creator, and before the days of Babylonian and Roman captivity come, in<br/>which she will no longer be free...<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"63e020cb8e9a19ec3b469aaec28fb88f365379375978fdf855480331d3289c00","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4077,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"46cb03f2d9690c0e10a47b4a6530e76cf86f04b2a08e3b3af181523fdc40275c","translator":null,"work":null}