{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4054","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"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>: \"A wise<br/>man's mind tends to his right; while a fool's mind tends to his left. Even on the road as the fool walks, he lacks<br/>sense, and proclaims to all that he is a fool. <br/>\"And in the<br/>Gospel it is taught that a wise man's left does not know what his right is<br/>doing. And when we are hit on the right<br/>side of the face, we do not show the left cheek to he who hit us, but the other<br/>one. For a wise man does not have a left<br/>side in him, but is in fact completely the right side. And when the Saviour comes to judge us, the<br/>lambs will stand on the right, and the goats on the left. It is written in the prophets that \"the<br/>Lord knows the ways to the right, which are wrong, and actually lead to the<br/>left.\" [Prov. 4, 27.]. Therefore he who is wise always thinks about<br/>the future, because it leads him to the right. <br/>But he who is foolish always thinks of the present, because it is set in<br/>the left. What follows has also been<br/>said by the philosopher poet, who says, \"the right leads to the walls of<br/>the lower world, this is our path to Elysium, but the left is for the<br/>wicked. That gives out punishments and<br/>sends people down to the nether regions\" [Virg. Aen. 6, 541/543.]. Firmianus of our time in the famous work of<br/>his Institute recalls the passage about left and right, and argues that this is<br/>about virtues and about vices. [Lactant. Divin. Instit. VI, 3,6-CSEL 19, p.486, 166sqq.] And we shouldn't think that this is contrary<br/>to that passage, which says, \"do not go to the right, nor to the<br/>left\" [Prov. 4, 27.]. In the first passage the right is taken to<br/>mean good; but in the second it is not just right but also the decline to the<br/>right. We should not know more than we<br/>need to know, since virtues are in the middle and all excess in a vice. In the following verse though he says,<br/>\"but on the path that the fool walks, his heart is in need\", and he<br/>says: \"all is foolishness\" or \"all are fools\". This is the meaning: A fool hopes that all<br/>others sin as he himself sins, and judges all others by his own standards. Then Symmachus has interpreted it in this<br/>way: but when the fool walks along the road, he supposes that all are stupid as<br/>he is. But the Septuagint has another<br/>meaning, which says, 'all things which he thinks are foolish, are the most<br/>vain'.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"7a858fcca562ba01b968c6b0761a9d419431d22437dff9e700075d251e604892","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4054,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"151022d2265adfe1ec67e3d3bc81ffc264a3f7244fbadc33d495676005b82c30","translator":null,"work":null}