Bonaventure

"And I judged happier than both," namely than the dead and the living, "him who has not yet been born nor seen the evils that are under the sun"; as though to see or to have seen these evils were a great misery: 1 Maccabees two: "Woe to me, said Mattathias, why was I born to see the destruction of my people and the destruction of the holy city, and to sit there?" — Thus therefore there is noted here the consideration of calumny, the aggravation of misery, because they are oppressed, desolate, destitute of assistance, and then the …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 4 ↗