{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4213","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"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>: \"So I<br/>said: wisdom is better than might, although a poor man's wisdom is despised and<br/>his words go unheeded. \"Although no one remembers a poor wise man,<br/>and everyone is happy, and admires power and riches; I however admire this<br/>despised wisdom according to all of the interpretations given above, and the<br/>words which none thinks worthy to be heard.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: If riches and poverty are from the Lord, how can either poverty or riches be an evil? Why then were these things said? They were said under the Old Covenant, where there was much account made of wealth, where there was great contempt of poverty, where the one was a curse and the other a blessing. But now it is no longer so.<br/><i>— ON THE EPISTLE TO THE Hebrews 18:4</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"303cfe30a3b9d75ed8375293b9dcc2a1c5f0458e2fb244c35533139f15aa0d6a","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4213,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"a268415a58851831e4c81558cde1b251a1f21b1b859cfbb3efe21e4da50315f6","translator":null,"work":null}