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Ecclesiastes 10:6

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Bonaventure

And he expresses what that evil is with regard to the defect of knowledge: The fool set in high dignity: set, he rightly says, because there is nothing there but a false placing: Psalm: "You set them up, you cast them down when they were lifted up." Or: set as a useless stone: whence in Zechariah 11 it is said to the foolish prelate: "O shepherd and idol! …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 10 ↗