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Ecclesiastes 5:9

Western Saints

Jerome

"A lover of money will never be satisfied with money; a lover of abundance has no wheat. This too, is futility! As goods increase, so do those who consume them; what advantage, then, has the owner except what hi eyes see?" Wherever we read 'silver', according to the ambiguity of the Greek term, it can be translated as 'money', since each has the meaning of the Greek "argurion. "More precisely Tullius is said to have called these men 'pecuniary', who have many small savings, that is wealth in cattle. …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes ↗

Bonaventure

"And moreover the king of all the earth commands one who serves him:" although therefore they do not serve one another and are not ordered through themselves, they are nevertheless ordered by God, who knows how to use evils well: in Genesis forty-one it is signified: "I am Pharaoh; without your command no one shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt." Whence it is said in Revelation nineteen: "He had written on his garment and on his thigh: King of kings and Lord of lords." And he himself perverts nothing: whence it is said …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 5 ↗