Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 9:2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 210, footnote 4 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Eustochium. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3000 (In-Text, Margin)

... burial her and her mother. Alas for the frailty and perishableness of human nature! Except that our belief in Christ raises us up to heaven and promises eternity to our souls, the physical conditions of life are the same for us as for the brutes. “There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the evil; to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good so is the sinner; and he that sweareth as he that feareth an oath.”[Ecclesiastes 9:2] Man and beast alike are dissolved into dust and ashes.