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Page 190: Didymus - in one sense, though, the Spirit is the real author of this book.
Gregory of Nyssa - the book of Ecclesiastes must be understood spiritually and in light of other passages of scripture.
1:1 The name Ecclesiastes
Origen-Preacher / Didymus-Soloman / Jerome-the Church / Gregory of Nyssa-about the church and the one who leads it / Evagrius of Pontus-Christ the Author of True Knowledge
1:2 Vanity of Life
Evagrius of Pontus-for it is futile for medicine to sek a final cure, so it is useless to seek after knowledge of the Holy Trinty in the ideas of the present ages and worlds.
Jerome-If everything that God made is good, then how can everything be vanity?
Ambrose-Accordingly, let the person who wishes to be saved ascend above the world, let him seek the Word of God, let him flee from this world and depat the earth. For a man cannot comprehend that which exists and exists always, unless he has first fled from here.
Augustine-the reason why corporeal beauty is the lowest beauty is that it's parts cannot exist simultaneously.
1:3 Vanity of Human Labor
Augustine-So true life is be laid hold of, our investments are to be transferred to the place of true life, so that we may find there what we give here.
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