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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"Enjoy life with the wife you love through all the fleeting days of your life that He has granted you under the sun, all of your futile existence; for that is your compensation in life and in your toil which you exert under the sun. "Follow wisdom and knowledge of the Scriptures, while you are joined in matrimony to your wife, as it is said in Proverbs: "love her and she will serve you: embrace her and she will embrace you too" [Prov. 4, 8.]. But the day of vanity, the day of this world means nothing. …
Bonaventure
Then according to touch he says: "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love." This enjoyment is described in Proverbs 7: "Come, let us be inebriated with breasts and enjoy the desired embraces, until the day dawns." And this not only once, but "all the days of the life of your instability, which are given to you under the sun." Truly our life is unstable, according to that passage of Job 14: "He never remains in the same state." And for greater expression he says: "All the time of your vanity." Our life is a time of vanity; whence in …
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