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Ecclesiastes 9:2

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Jerome

"All things come alike to all; the same fate awaits the righteous and the wicked, the good and the clean and the unclean, the one who brings a sacrifice and the one who does not. As is the good man so is the sinner, as is the one who swears, so is the one who fears an oath. …

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Bonaventure

"But all things are reserved for the future." Here the third point is noted, namely the reason for uncertainty, which arises from this, that in the present, recompense is not made according to merits, but is reserved for the future. And therefore he says thus: "Man does not know... …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 9 ↗