{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4192","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":6,"verse_to":6},"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>: \"For<br/>everything has its time and justice, for man's evil overwhelms him. Indeed he does not know what will happen, for<br/>when it happens , who will tell him? \"Many good and bad things can befall a man,<br/>but even a righteous man is not able to know what will befall him, or know the<br/>causes and reasons for each thing, (for no one can know what will happen), but<br/>he does know that all things are done by God to the advantage of man, and<br/>nothing is done without His will. For<br/>this is a great sufferance for mankind, since as the poet says: \"the mind<br/>of man knows not his lot and coming fate\" [Virg. Aen. 10, 501.]. If he hopes for one thing, then another<br/>happens; he expects the enemy to come from one direction and is wounded by a<br/>spear from the opposite direction. But<br/>here Theodotion and the Septuagint have said, \"since the knowledge of man<br/>overwhelms him\", the Hebrew has 'wickedness' not 'knowledge'. But because the Hebrew letters 'Resh' and<br/>'Daleth' are similar without the serif, instead of \"raath \"they have read \"daat, \"that<br/>is instead of 'wickedness', 'knowledge'. <br/>This is easier to understand if you have knowledge of the language. Note too, that which is written at the end of<br/>the verse: 'since he doesn't know what has been, and what will be after him,<br/>who will tell him?' I have translated<br/>word for word here from the Hebrew text, so that we can see that there is a<br/>different meaning, since we are clearly not able to know those things which<br/>have already passed away, or those that will be, as they have yet to be done.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"e2932a7fd4a72a68183c6c7ac077fc90d642acf7b5616e997b8cb4a7aab7887b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4192,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"7f949a1d721341bc265963c73baf0223a9e923e474086e5086c5fc83015795bb","translator":null,"work":null}