Fathers

Loading…

What the Fathers say

Ecclesiastes 3:18

Western Saints

Jerome

"Then I said to myself concerning men: God has chosen them out, but only to see that they themselves are as beasts. For the fate of men and the fate of beast - they have one and the same fate: as one dies so the other dies, and they all have the same spirit. Man has no superiority over beast, for all is futile. All go to the same place; all originate from dust and return to dust. …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes ↗

Bonaventure

I said in my heart concerning the sons of men etc. Here is touched upon thirdly how from this he arrived at a consideration of the present state, namely why the Lord willed men to be miserable in the present: for this purpose, namely that he might prove them, therefore he made the life of man similar to beasts. …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3 ↗