Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 1:13

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 70, footnote 1 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 1090 (In-Text, Margin)

... apostle casts no snare upon us, nor does he compel us to be what we do not wish. He only urges us to what is honorable and seemly, inciting us earnestly to serve the Lord, to be anxious always to please Him, and to look for His will which He has prepared for us to do. We are to be like alert and armed soldiers, who immediately execute the orders given to them and perform them without that travail of mind which, according to the preacher, is given to the men of this world ‘to be exercised therewith.’”[Ecclesiastes 1:13] At the end, also, of our comparison of virgins and married women we have summed up the discussion thus: “When one thing is good and another thing is better; when that which is good has a different reward from that which is better; and when there are ...