{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4183","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":22,"verse_to":22},"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>: \"And do<br/>not heed all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you. For often your own heart knows that you<br/>likewise have cursed others. \"Make sure to do only those things which have<br/>been taught, and strengthened by the help of wisdom, prepare yourself for<br/>either good or bad outcomes, and don't worry about what your enemies might say<br/>about you, or what kind of reputation you have. <br/>For just as a cautious man should not hear his servant complain about<br/>him, so he should not want to hear what is said about him in his absence, (for<br/>if he did this he would always be troubled and incensed to anger by the<br/>muttering of the servant). Therefore it<br/>is befitting for a wise man to walk with wisdom following him, and not to dwell<br/>upon unfounded rumours. But he teaches<br/>by another example that the righteous man ought not to worry what men say,<br/>saying, 'just as your conscience knows what you have said about others, and<br/>that you have often maligned others, so you ought to pardon others when they<br/>think badly of you.' At the same time he<br/>teaches that it is difficult to judge for one who has a rod in his eye, not to<br/>speak about the rod of another.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c0af3a07a577f2a252d9f78155749199059162f1faa1f7cf88bab1d69175d18c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4183,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"5a92c1af39177926cac76dc501496e92243e6cfc68560b412709080ad642588b","translator":null,"work":null}