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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"What gain, then, has the worker in exchange for all his toil? I have observed the task which God has given the sons of man to be concerned with: He made everything beautiful in its time; He has also put an enigma into their minds so that man cannot comprehend what God has done from the beginning to end." The opinion of many other scholars on this passage does not escape me, because in this world God conceded to the teachers of perverse doctrines their true occupation, lest man's idle mind should become slow and while thinking that …
Bonaventure
Art. 2. Our curiosity is reproved in two ways. What more has man, etc. He showed above the variety of things according to diverse times; here secondly from this he reproves human curiosity: and he does this indeed in this order. First he suggests the uselessness of curiosity; second, in detestation of it, he commends present pleasure. He reproves our curiosity on account of its uselessness, whence he says: What more has man? supply: except mutability and variety, and through this, affliction.
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