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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"All this have I seen; and I applied my mind to see every deed that is done under the sun: there is a time when one man rules over another to his detriment. And then I saw the wicked buried and newly come while those who had done right were gone from the Holy place and were forgotten in the city. This too is vanity! Because the sentence for wrong-doing is not executed quickly- that is why men are encouraged to do evil. …
Bonaventure
He treated above of the vanity of proneness; here he treats of the vanity of false security. And since this vanity is dangerous, because it impels a man to sin or detains him once impelled, therefore first the vanity is set forth; second, the remedy of the vanity, at: He who digs a pit will fall into it, below in chapter ten. First the vanity of false security is shown according to its twofold origin. …
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