{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4197","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"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>: \"And it<br/>will not be well with the wicked, and he will not live long-like a<br/>shadow-because he does not fear God. \"He invokes wickedness upon those who do not<br/>fear God, and desires that they do not wait long for their punishment, but<br/>rather are crucified and immediately put to death, this punishment is for those<br/>who merit such a death. This is similar<br/>to what the apostle says: \"I would that those who annoy us were put to death.\" [Gal. 5,12.] And in another place \"Alexander the coppersmith<br/>did me much evil, may the Lord reward him according to his works.\" [II Tim. 4, 14.] We must ask though how these things are said<br/>so mildly. This is very true to the<br/>Hebrew meaning of this verse. But we can<br/>follow the Septuagint's interpretation, which seems to take another meaning,<br/>and says, \"and I know, since those who fear God will be well, that they<br/>fear his face, and the wicked will not be well, and his day will not be long in<br/>shadows, who does not fear God.\" He<br/>could have said this: 'let there also be those things which I considered a<br/>little earlier', but I know clearly that those fearing God will be well;<br/>\"for the face of God is above those who do wickedness\" [Ps. 33, 17.]. And the wicked will not be well, for he does<br/>not fear God and his days will not be longer in shadows. This is the day of his life, which is like a<br/>shadow for the living. Not by this do<br/>those who live for a long time lengthen their days, but they make them great<br/>with the number of their good deeds. As<br/>if confessing himself to be a sinner, Jacob says about this: \"few and<br/>wicked are these days of mine\" [Gen. 47, 9.]. And confessing in the Psalm he says, \"my<br/>days are inclined like shadows, and I am like the hay of the field\" [Ps. 101, 12.]. Not because he has sought a long life in the<br/>present world, in which all that we live is brief and looks lie shadow:<br/>\"for man walks in His likeness\" [Ps. 38, 7.],<br/>but because he fears the future, lest the length of his life, if it is indeed<br/>life, should be short.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"56621118565ff2b252f40b0412c0a9c828da3427d89211700dd96fafa5cee348","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4197,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"4ea05021d3bd3825df17bb5d52cab348200ff327bd5f6370af95e0f30bb21d08","translator":null,"work":null}