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Ecclesiastes 4:15

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Bonaventure

Here is touched upon secondly the evil succeeding on account of his imprudence, because he himself is cast down and another is exalted: whence he says: "I saw all the living who walk under the sun," that is, many or innumerable, hyperbolically, "with the second youth," that is, who follows him in the kingdom: whence he says: "who shall rise up in his place." And so others follow the succeeding youth, despising the old man. …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 4 ↗