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Ecclesiastes 5:4

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Bonaventure

"If you have vowed anything," etc. Here secondly he prohibits false speech, by which namely that is promised which is not fulfilled. He therefore exhorts one to fulfill what has been promised: whence he says: "If you have vowed anything to God," that is, you have promised by a vow: "do not delay to render it:" whence in the Psalm: "Vow, and render to the Lord your God, all you who round about him bring gifts"; and the Gloss says: "To vow is voluntary, but to render is necessary," because otherwise a man is false in his promise; …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 5 ↗