{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4174","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":12,"verse_to":12},"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>: \"Wisdom<br/>is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the<br/>sun. For wisdom is a defence, and money<br/>is a defence: but the advantage of knowledge is, that wisdom gives life to<br/>those that have it. \"A wise man with riches has more glory than<br/>just a wise man alone. For some men need<br/>wisdom, some wealth, but he who is both wise and not rich is able to teach what<br/>is good, but meanwhile he can't show what is to be sought. Therefore he says, since the protection of<br/>wisdom is the protection of money, then just as wisdom protects, so too money<br/>also protects. And lest he seem to<br/>detract from wisdom, while he adds to it by good fortune, (for it is not in our<br/>power to obtain riches, which often the unrighteous own in greater quantity),<br/>he therefore shows wisdom to be greater, saying \"but the advantage of<br/>knowledge is, that wisdom gives life to those that have it.\" In that respect, he says, wisdom is greater<br/>than riches, because without any wealth it preserves those who think themselves<br/>rich. Certain scholars see this passage<br/>in a different way: they say that he places heredity in place of good<br/>association, by which we are the heirs of God, and co-heirs of Christ. Therefore Ecclesiastes wants to teach how<br/>much of a difference there is between those who merit seeing the sun (of<br/>justice), and have wisdom by their good association, and those in contrast, who<br/>without wisdom have only enthusiasm for vice and association. Since even David shows this, saying \"the<br/>intelligent shine out by their speech, as the shining bodies of the sky\" [Dan. 12. 3.],<br/>or as Theodotion interpreted this, \"just as the brightness of the<br/>firmament. Indeed those who wrote my<br/>speeches are as the stars of the sky\". <br/>But we ought to take that protection of silver (or money) according to \"anagoge [See footnote 50.]<br/>\"from which talents and coins are collected in the parables of the Gospels [Cfr Matth. 25,<br/>14-23; Luc. 19. 12-25.],<br/>just as when we were under the protection of wisdom and under the protection of<br/>such money: \"the sun does not burn us by day, nor the moon by night\". [Ps. 120, 6.] But this can even be said to be true since<br/>protection is our life on the earth: \"the breath of our nostrils, the<br/>anointed Christ our Lord of whom we said: under His shadow we should live among<br/>the heathen\". [Thren. 4, 20.] All of our protection in this life is like a<br/>shade, or like wisdom, or as is said about money, until the day moves on and<br/>the shadows move away. Symmachus<br/>interprets this more clearly in his usual manner, saying, \"just as wisdom<br/>protects, so too money protects in a similar fashion\". But the following verse openly encourages the<br/>enthusiasm for knowledge.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d765cd1ad8cbe50bb7d050f91d5ff17f5f33b0f6f800906c5b45590f21833163","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4174,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"09c961054910997566bd84636ee8a6e0d8148474c39bef587d4db4c6741f1ae9","translator":null,"work":null}