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Ecclesiastes 7:7

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Bonaventure

Instructions are set forth for having constancy: and since constancy is lost through oppression and through wrath, and is preserved through patience and through perseverance: therefore four instructions are set forth here. In the first is shown that oppression is to be avoided: in the second, that perseverance is to be loved: in the third, that patience is to be preserved: in the fourth, that wrath is to be fled. …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 7 ↗