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Ecclesiastes 7:23

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Bonaventure

Above he treated the vanity of mutability and iniquity; in this part he intends to treat the vanity of penality. And because punishment is twofold: one kind, which is the occasion of sin, such as concupiscence; another kind, which is pure affliction, such as death and bodily infirmity: therefore he first treats the first penality, which is the occasion of sin. …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 7 ↗