{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4208","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"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>Didymus the Blind</b>: The time of the days has an end and a definite number. The psalmist as well says, \"Lord, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.\" …The days of life which are given under the sun are days of vanity. Even if our lives which we live now are good and filled with illumination, they will be replaced with greater joys, about which God says: \"I will satisfy him through the length of the days.\"<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Ecclesiastes 277:7</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: \"Enjoy<br/>life with the wife you love through all the fleeting days of your life that He<br/>has granted you under the sun, all of your futile existence; for that is your<br/>compensation in life and in your toil which you exert under the sun. \"Follow wisdom and knowledge of the Scriptures, while<br/>you are joined in matrimony to your wife, as it is said in Proverbs: \"love<br/>her and she will serve you: embrace her and she will embrace you too\" [Prov. 4, 8.]. But the day of vanity, the day of this world<br/>means nothing. The apostle mentions this<br/>too, and he says, \"live life with the woman that you love\", but this<br/>is said in ambiguity, either live or contemplate life both you yourself and<br/>your wife with you, for you will not be able to live life alone without such a<br/>wife, or consider each one and live life, and consider the woman in the days of<br/>your vanity. And he words this<br/>carefully, so that we seek the true life with our wife and wisdom in the days<br/>of our vanity. For this is our lot and<br/>the fruit of our toil, if we, retired, are able to find this true life.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1847c68bcd706761643cd263fa7bab58b1193da72e69f7ec607705525e8ce2c3","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4208,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2575689397a9f4785c16f64b1382fce4660b038e976c890316ca7b98baff4dd0","translator":null,"work":null}