{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4152","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":7,"verse_to":7},"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>: \"If you<br/>see oppression of the poor, and the suppression of justice and right of the<br/>State, do not be astonished at the fact, for there is One higher than the high<br/>Who watches and there are high ones above them. <br/>The advantage of land is supreme; even a king is indebted to the<br/>soil.\" Christ's garment, woven on top, was not able to be torn<br/>by those who crucified him; and the Saviour threw him from that demon, and<br/>advised him to go away having put on the clothes of the apostles. So we believe that the clothes of our<br/>Ecclesiastes are not to be torn, nor should we sew on here and there patches in<br/>place of our free-will of opinion, but use the one text itself in dispute, and<br/>follow the same meaning and arrangement all the way through. Above this he had said: \"do not tell the<br/>messenger that it was a madness, lest God become angry over your speech\",<br/>and regarding the remaining things, he had spoken against those, who do not<br/>know that providence rules over human affairs. <br/>Since therefore the question arises many times about the precept, why<br/>the righteous sustain disaster, and why the unjust become judges over all the<br/>world, but God is not vengeful: now he introduces and finishes this argument,<br/>saying, 'if you see the calamity of a pauper, who is said to be blessed in the<br/>Gospel, and the situation is assessed according to his strength and not in<br/>justice, do not be astonished or let anything seem new to you. God, who is highest above the high, sees<br/>these things, He that placed His angels above the judges and kings of the<br/>earth, to prevent injustice and they are more important on earth, than any of<br/>man's potentates. But since he will be<br/>the Saviour at the end of the judges, and in the end of the world when the<br/>cornfield will be ripe, and the harvesters will come, he will be ordered that<br/>the wheat be separated and the darnel thrown on the fire. Therefore he now awaits and differs in<br/>opinion, although the field of the world is cultivated carefully more<br/>fully. But since that field is<br/>interpreted as the world, the Lord expounds about them in the parable of darnel<br/>and wheat. [Cfr Matth. 13, 24-30.]<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"046b020047ab105b4e7f5942e4e52d73293b7b2459e7825da0aaef756e6a954d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4152,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"d0a59c719e390c63368683ba17fa063fe3cef76df73396457c325ce2bc64f847","translator":null,"work":null}