{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4176","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"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>: \"Consider<br/>the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made<br/>crooked? \"Symmachus translates this passage in this<br/>way: \"learn the word of God, because no one can correct what He has<br/>ruined\". That is he supplies from<br/>the Holy Scriptures, or from thinking of the elements, to know and understand<br/>those things, which are done; but not to ask the causes and reasons why one<br/>thing is done in this way, or why it ought to have been done differently from<br/>the way in which it has been done. For<br/>the sake of this passage, if anyone should ask why God spoke to Moses in this<br/>way: \"who makes the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind, am I not<br/>the Lord God?\" [Ex. 4, 11.],<br/>and if he should say, why are the blind, the deaf, the mute created in this<br/>way, and others similar to these? This<br/>passage must be seen in reference to <br/>Psalms 17, in which it is said to the Lord: \"You will be Holy with<br/>the holy man, and with the wicked You<br/>will err\" [Ps. 17, 26-27.]. And it must be added that the Holy Lord is<br/>with him, who is holy; and the wicked are with him, who was previously wicked<br/>by his own will. This is similar also to<br/>that which is written in Leviticus: \"if the wicked came to me I will go to<br/>them, wicked in my madness\". [Lev. 26-27.] Even this can explain why God hardened the<br/>heart of Pharaoh. For just as one and<br/>the same quality of the sun melts wax and dries clay, and on account of each<br/>one's constitution, both wax melts and clay dries; [Cfr. Lucr. De Rerum Natura VI 962/965; Verg. Ecl. VIII 80.; Hier. Epist. 120,10<br/>-12. CSEL 55, p504,10.]<br/>so too the one quality of the portents of God in Egypt softened the heart of<br/>those who believed, and hardened that of the incredulous, who just as their<br/>hardness and impatient heart, began to store up for themselves anger for the<br/>day of anger from those portents, which they didn't believe, though yet they<br/>saw them happen.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"49dac54b4940fa91e5e2c9b08f63252850b77bd661c7bf30bcf1bfac3be09a0e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4176,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"9542318c8e686574289e946541ea60c11f15def738904c7eac3dd4f11a31224d","translator":null,"work":null}