{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4148","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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<br/>you make a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for He has no liking for fools;<br/>what you vow, pay. Better that you not<br/>vow at all, than that you vow and not pay. <br/>\"A simple man<br/>does not need understanding by interpretation. <br/>It is better not to promise than not to keep promises, since they<br/>displease God and are numbered among fools, who do not fulfil their vows. But since he says, \"There is no will in fools\"<br/>underneath we hear \"of God\", like the word of the apostle, who says,<br/>\"and just as there was no will, that I should now come to you\" [I Cor. 16, 12.]. For even if we want to say something more<br/>inquiring, it is taught to a Christian, that he should fulfil his faith by<br/>work, and not be like the Jews, who pledge and say, \"we will do all that<br/>God commands\" [Ex. 24, 3.],<br/>and yet worship idols. And afterwards<br/>they beat those slaves and cast stones at them, and immediately killed the very<br/>son of the father of their house. It is<br/>better therefore to hold a doubtful opinion for a while, which is easy to say<br/>in words, but difficult to put into practice. <br/>For the slave, who knows the will of his God and will not do it will be<br/>defeated by many.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4b6b79a44720bc0bd3f8f797b12387dcc283c6ce20ab04e248702a909f1b8286","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4148,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2059a9c75260b524193b80934a39f40742c15facf6ef27c6c743aa5606702f46","translator":null,"work":null}