Bonaventure

And he repeats the reason why he ceased: "For when another labors in wisdom," in the heart; "and in doctrine," in the mouth; "and in solicitude," in deed; "he leaves what was acquired to an idle man." And from this he concludes vanity: "and this therefore is vanity and a great evil:" vanity indeed, because riches are left to a useless man, but a great evil; whence Hugh says: "It is a great evil that what one man is worn down by in labor, another should abuse idly and illicitly"; evil, because to a squanderer; Jeremiah 51: "Their …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 2 ↗