{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4133","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":22,"verse_to":22},"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>: \"I<br/>therefore observed that there is nothing better for man than to be happy in<br/>what he is doing, for that is his lot. <br/>For who can enable him to see what will be after him? \" Instead of that<br/>which we have as \"to see what will be after him\", Symmachus<br/>interprets it more clearly saying, \"so that he sees those things which<br/>will be after these ones\". <br/>Therefore nothing is good in life, unless a man is happy in his work,<br/>doing acts of sympathy, and obtaining his future reward in the realm of<br/>heaven. We have this one lot, which nor<br/>neither thief nor robber values, nor any tyrant has the power to take away, and<br/>which follows us after our death. And we<br/>will not be able to enjoy our toil again when this life will be over, or know<br/>what things will be afterwards in the world. <br/>Another explanation of this is: I am disturbed by the wickedness of what<br/>I have said above, that I think there is no difference between men and beasts,<br/>and I have been led into this opinion by wrong conclusions, so that I said<br/>nothing else was good, except grasping ones present desire. Nor when death has destroyed us is it<br/>possible to enjoy these things, which we, ungrateful, leave behind. Some have referred to that understanding<br/>because it says, \"for who leads him, so that he sees those things, which<br/>will be after him\", so that they say, \"it is better for a man to<br/>enjoy his work\" because it is only this that he is able to take away with<br/>him from his possessions. For when death<br/>comes he will not know what kind of heir he will die with, whether worthy or<br/>unworthy, who will enjoy his wealth.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2daf2bd16feb2408a81f34fd583a6230765f4ff16c158e2d58ee81035f994ffd","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4133,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"41995459526b139e8529354db8b5d2d2ebb4faf3ae09d446b5bd02783292b73c","translator":null,"work":null}