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*[https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/ecclesiastes/jerome-commentary-on-ecclesiastes St. Jerome's Commentary].
https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/ecclesiastes/jerome-commentary-on-ecclesiastes St. Jerome's Commentary].
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*[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/473659 ECCLESIASTES AND the RUBAIYAT,"] REV. WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH, PH.D.
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==Thoughts==
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*The book isn't as problematic as I thought. It is modest, saying we can't know things for sure, so we should avoid overt sin and live happily and simply. It is the anti-Nietzsche book.
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*Calvin on pleasure, Book III. Ecclesiastes. If we want to help the poor, that means we think riches are good-- otherwise, we wouldn't ant to make  a poor man rich.  See Augustine too. On Epicurus. https://findingaugustine.org/Record/71267
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*Christian Approval of Epicureanism Author(s): Richard P. Jungkuntz Source: Church History , Sep., 1962, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1962), pp. 279-293 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3163320

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Commentaries

Thoughts

  • The book isn't as problematic as I thought. It is modest, saying we can't know things for sure, so we should avoid overt sin and live happily and simply. It is the anti-Nietzsche book.
  • Calvin on pleasure, Book III. Ecclesiastes. If we want to help the poor, that means we think riches are good-- otherwise, we wouldn't ant to make a poor man rich. See Augustine too. On Epicurus. https://findingaugustine.org/Record/71267
  • Christian Approval of Epicureanism Author(s): Richard P. Jungkuntz Source: Church History , Sep., 1962, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1962), pp. 279-293 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3163320