{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4080","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"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>: \"While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or<br/>the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain. \"If we take this from the creation of the world, this<br/>chapter agrees with the words of the Lord, in which He says, \"there will<br/>be trouble and difficulty as there has not been since the beginning of<br/>creation, but this will not happen. For<br/>the sun will grow dark and the moon will not shed light, and the stars will<br/>fall from the sky, and the virtues of heaven will be moved\" [Matth. 24, 21.19.]. Those things are the guardians of the house,<br/>as we understand the 'house' to be this world, and the strong men, deceived by<br/>wickedness and varied strengths must be dispersed. But if a particular consummation of any one<br/>person is kept to the end of his life, then the sun, the moon, and stars,<br/>clouds and rain will cease to be for him, who has died. Differently: enjoy youth, O Christian people,<br/>and enjoy the goodness which has been given to you by God, and know that God<br/>will judge you for all these. Do not<br/>think that, since the earlier branches have been broken, you will be placed in<br/>the root of a good olive tree, and therefore you will be without worry. But remove anger from your heart and desires<br/>from your body, and when you have left all other vices remember your Creator<br/>before the day of wickedness comes, the day of madness, in which punishments<br/>have been made for sinners. This is so<br/>that when you sin the sun of righteousness will set for you at midday, and the<br/>light of knowledge will die, and the brightness of the moon, (that is of the<br/>Church) will be taken away, and the stars will die, about which is written,<br/>\"in which you shine like the lights in the world having reason of<br/>life\" [Phil. 2, 15.]. And elsewhere: \"star differs from star<br/>in glory. Before the clouds return after<br/>the rain\" [I Cor. 15, 41.],<br/>lest the prophets, who have watered the hearts of believers by the rain of<br/>their speech, after they have seen you to be unworthy of their rain, return to<br/>their seat, clearly to Him from whom they were sent.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2b456fc79436533a064cd904e35ede9fb912e9b050dee33f26d3476dc576a3d8","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4080,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"77cdbef4f0f00389a3ccb3de3284bba0fadf312da3c253b1c57ed94b4c53a98b","translator":null,"work":null}