{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4200","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"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>: \"When I<br/>applied my heart to see wisdom and work which takes place on earth- for even<br/>day or night its eyes see no sleep. And<br/>I perceived all the work of God. Indeed<br/>man cannot fathom the events that occur under the sun, inasmuch as man tries<br/>strenuously to search, but cannot fathom it. <br/>And even though a wise man should presume to know, he cannot know<br/>it. \"He searches for the causes and understanding of the<br/>world, why this or that is done, and for what reason the world is steered by<br/>good or bad turns of events; why one is born blind and frail, another born<br/>healthy and with sight; why one is poor, another rich; why one is of high<br/>birth, another inglorious. Nothing else<br/>is of use, unless he is tortured in his search, and has an argument instead of<br/>anguish, but he does not find what he is looking for. And when he says that he knows, then he has<br/>the beginning of ignorance in him, and starts to sink into deeper madness. But he shows later that justice is the cause<br/>of all things, why things happen the way they do, but that those causes hide in<br/>secret and are not able to be understood by men.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"b83d95593265508488e245e7ac5ec009247a8f2434f67a43dc3d6bf02f0451a0","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4200,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"34142f893beb5f7679e44548b157c92c1dd848c311419caffeae4125d8343218","translator":null,"work":null}