{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7681","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":55,"chapter_to":55,"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>Prudentius</b>: \"If you would,\" he says,<br/>\"Ascend to heaven, banish cares of earth.<br/>For far as earth is distant from the sky<br/>And heaven from the world below, so far<br/>Are your vain thoughts from my eternal thoughts,<br/>Ill from good, sin from virtue, dark from light.<br/>I counsel you to shun all passing things<br/>And deem as nought all to corruption prone,<br/>For it is destined to return to nought.<br/>All earth brings forth and holds, at dawn of time<br/>I made; I decked with splendid ornaments<br/>The shining world and formed the elements,<br/>But willed that the enjoyment be confined<br/>Within due bounds, as far as mortal frame<br/>And fleeting human life may have the need,<br/>Not that humanity, by unbridled passion ruled,<br/>Should reckon good alone things sweet and vain,<br/>Which I have preordained to pass with time.<br/><i>— AGAINST SYMMACHUS 2:123-40</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4d77a952df94c6982d8f4058e613c1e00efa64b7fabe94cccb7369f549eaf288","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7681,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"0572f3d45d74b964ff24fd271ae4d984302ac6cd010d65b08b87e87e704fc0c8","translator":null,"work":null}