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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"So I turned my heart to despair of all that I had achieved by toiling under the sun. For there is a man who laboured with wisdom, knowledge and skill, yet he must hand on his portion to one who has not toiled for it. This too is vanity and a great evil. For what has a man in return for all his toil and his stress, which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are painful, and his business is a vexation; even at night his mind has no rest. …
Bonaventure
From the consideration of this vanity, therefore, he ceased from curiosity; whence he says: "Wherefore I ceased, and my heart renounced laboring under the sun," that is, for temporal goods. "I ceased," in deed; "and my heart renounced," in will. But the miser does not cease on this account, below in chapter 4: "There is one alone, and he has not a second, and yet he does not cease to labor."
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