{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4180","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":18,"verse_to":18},"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>: \"Do not<br/>be too wicked, and do not be foolish: why should you die before your time? \"When God says, \"I do not want the death of the<br/>dying, only let him return and live\" [Ezek. 18, 32.],<br/>it suffices to have sinned only once. We<br/>ought to raise ourselves up after a catastrophe. For just like those who argue about worldly<br/>matters, the swallow knows how to protect its young from poppy seeds, and<br/>wounded roes seek wild marjoram to cure themselves. Then why are we ignorant that the cure of<br/>repentance is proposed for sinners? But<br/>he says, \"do not delay in an world that is not yours\". We know that Chore, Dathan, and Habiron, on<br/>account of their uprising against Moses and Aaron, were suddenly eaten up by a<br/>gap in the earth, and in emendation of others, many were judged before the day<br/>of judgement even in their lifetime. [Cfr. Num. 16.] Therefore he says, \"do not add sins to<br/>sins, lest you cause God to punish you\"<br/><i>— Commentary on Ecclesiastes</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"7f5a3a50c7ca3cce7dc31fe7cf6336cad91ac7fa9a35184a7de95e31924e9556","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4180,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"bd5a04f83cbb915ebcdaec7a08d142ce17938b5125681e98fb61e49b9fe4da19","translator":null,"work":null}