{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4108","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":17,"verse_to":17},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: Therefore incline to him of whom the psalmist says, \"He has not taken his soul in vain.\" To speak now of the troubles of this life, the person has taken his soul in vain who is constructing the things of the world and building the things of the body. We arise each day to eat and drink; yet no one is filled so that he does not hunger and thirst after a short time. Daily we seek profit, and to greed there is set no limit. \"The eye will not be satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing.\" He that loves silver will not be satisfied with silver. There is no limit to toil, and there is no profit in abundance.<br/><i>— DEATH AS A GOOD 7:28</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: \"So I<br/>hated life, for I was depressed by all that goes on under the sun, because<br/>everything is vain and a vexation of the spirit.\" The world has been given over to unkindness [Cfr I John. 5, 19.]<br/>and the apostle moans about the tabernacle saying \"I am a wretched man,<br/>who will free me from the body of this death?\" [Rom. 7, 24.],<br/>and he hates quite rightly everything that is done under the sun. That is however only in comparison with<br/>paradise and the beatitude of that life, in which we would enjoy the fruits of<br/>wisdom and the pleasures of virtues. But<br/>now as if we are in a prison camp or cell, and with a wall of tears, we eat our<br/>bread in the sweat of our brow.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4fa7e8a74489bd43d394f8663d80adfe55bcd35388161d388b00c4e68142b645","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4108,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"cbe21e0134d71cb3b36332a30fae0b622bd2b938b8bd29df18db5862a7bfa0d7","translator":null,"work":null}