{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4162","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"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>Jerome</b>: \"Better<br/>is what the eyes see than what is imagined. <br/>That, too, is futility and a vexation of the spirit.\" Symmachus interpreted this clearly, he says: \"it<br/>is better to make provision, than to walk about as it pleases you\". That is, it is better to do all things<br/>according to what you know to be right in your mind, which is the eye of the<br/>soul, than to follow the desire of your heart. <br/>For this is to wander in spirit, just as Ezekiel says: \"he who<br/>walks by the desire of his heart\" [Ezek. 11, 21.]. For indeed he denounced that man is proud and<br/>only pleases himself and says he is better, who makes provision for all days,<br/>than he, whom nothing pleases, unless he has made it himself. Nothing is worse than him, and more vane than<br/>any breath. And again here<br/>\"vexation of the spirit\" has been interpreted by Theodotion and<br/>Aquila as 'suffering of the soul'. <br/>Symmachus too has \"affliction of the spirit\". More precisely we must remember that in<br/>Hebrew 'spirit' and 'breath' are similar in usage - that is \"ruha\".<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"996cec0b208129b7d79f5f639e2cbc0f0beb690fbdd3dfba3971d8665c9a7721","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4162,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c6cec3571809217142d22b914fa757e8c8660507964bf11e0c33e13d86a53f25","translator":null,"work":null}