_Heaven, in this world, where alone things change. (St. Jerome) --- Nothing is here perpetual, but to be used in a proper manner. (Worthington) --- The heart must not be attached to any thing created. (Calmet) --- Pleasure had been condemned and approved, chap. 2. He shews that all must have its tim... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stones, with a sling, or to render a field useless, 4 Kings iii. 25., and Isaias v. 2. --- Embraces. Countenance was sometimes prescribed for married people, Leviticus xx. 18., and 1 Corinthians vii. (St. Jerome) (St. Augustine, Enchiridion 78.) (Calmet) --- Hatred often succeeds love, ver. 8., and... [ Continue Reading ]
_Labour? What advantage does he derive from any of these things? (Chap. i. 3.) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Consideration. Literally, "dispute." Hebrew and Septuagint, "heart." (Haydock) --- Pagnin, "He has implanted the desire of immortality in their hearts." --- End. If we could discover the properties of each thing, we should be in raptures; (Calmet) but as we cannot, this increases our vexation. (Men... [ Continue Reading ]
_Well; virtuously: or, perhaps, as literally, to enjoy himself, ver. 13. (Calmet) --- Thus thinks the man of pleasure, Isaias xxii. 31. (St. Jerome)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_God. He gives peace and plenty; and still more, the grace to use these things, so as to obtain heaven. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Feared. The order of the seasons, &c., teaches men to adore Providence. (St. Jerome) --- He has arranged every thing, how mutable soever. (St. Augustine, Confessions i. 6.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Past. He causes plants to spring forth afresh. Hebrew, Septuagint, &c., "But will God seek after the oppressed?" Here commences another objection. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_And then. Protestants, "for there is a time there (ver. 1.) for every purpose, and for every work." At the day of judgment all will receive their due. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Beasts. Another doubt; or suggestion of infidels. (St. Gregory, Dial. iv. 4.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Man hath nothing more, &c., viz., as to the life of the body. (Challoner)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Who knoweth, &c., viz., experimentally; since no one in this life can see a spirit. But as to the spirits of the beasts, which is merely animal, and becomes extinct by the death of the beast, who can tell the manner it acts so as to give life and motion, and by death to descend downward, that is, t... [ Continue Reading ]
_After him. He knows not who shall be his heir, or how soon he may die. None returns from the other world to inform him of what is there transacted. Thus the libertine encourages himself. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER III.... [ Continue Reading ]