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Judging, therelare, that it Mood thus With this matter, I
bitterly Wroth against it. And when Ι pereeived that thomes is ablo to arrest the body in iis disposition to intoxicationand min bibbing, and that temperance mahes lusi ita subjeci, I sought earnestly to observe What object of true morth and of real excelleneo is set before men, Whicli they shali attainto in this present lite. For I passed throno ali thoso other objecta Which aro deemed worthiest, such as tho erecting oflosty honses and tho planting of vines, and in addition, tholaying out of pleasure-grounds, and the acquisition and
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10 GREGORY THAUMAT G Sthe Ves, and to the violent passions os tho heari, that maritheir attach from ali quarters, and surrendered myself to the hopes held out is pleasures, Ι also mado my Will tho bond- flavo os ali miserable delighra. For thus my judgment WasMought io such a Wretched pras, that I thought theso thingsgood, and that it Was proper for me to engage in them. At lennii, aWahing and recovering my sight, I perceived that thothings I had in hand wero altogether sinsul and very evit, and
to bo destred by a just mind. Whereiore, having pondered
ne tot is, τυφλός τε ων πιὸν πρόσοψιν καὶ vis του σκότους των πραγμάτων ἀφηρημένος, sor Which it is pro sed to reavi τυφλός τε ών καὶ mis
πρόσοψιν υπὸ του σκότους, etc.
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iraeis to me, ametri the kno te e of Wisdom and the po session os manly virtuo ανδρείας). And is a man neglecta them things, and is inflamed With tho passion for osterstings, auch a man mahes choice of evit insisad of good, and goes aster What is bad instead of What is excellent, and after troubio instead of peace; for he is distracted by every manner of disturbance, and is burdoned with continuat anxieties night and dari With oppressivo labours of body M.eli as mith ceaselem cares of mind, is heari moving in constant agitation, by reason of tha strango and semelessallairs that oecupy him. For the perfect good does noteonsist in eating and drinhing, although it is truo that it is
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of men are at one time in a condition os War, and at another ina condition of peace ; While their fortunes are so inconstant,
The Grea texi is, καιροσκόπος δή τις πονηρος τον αἰωνα τουτον περιμι χηνεν, ἀφανισαι υπερδιατεινομενος το του Θεου πλάσμα, εξ αρχης αυτε
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r hieous and tho unrighteous, and objecta Mith reason and without reason, aro althe in His judgment. For that thoirtime is measured out equalty to all, and death impends overthem, and in this) the races os beasis and men aro altho in the judinent of God, and differ irom each other only in thematter of articulate speech; and ali things elso happen althoto them, and death receives ali equestri not more so in thecase of the other hinds of creatures than in that os men.
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A METAPHRASE OF ECCLESIASTES 15stili at least no stight alleviation in having his companion byhim. And the greatest os ali calamities to a man in evit fortune is tho want of a friond to help and cheor him ανακτησομένου . And thoso who livo together both doubiotho good sortune that besalis them, and lessen the pressureol the si in os disagris te eventa; so that in tho day theyam distinguished for their frank confidenco in each other, and in the night they appear notabis for their cheerfulnem. But he who leavi a solitary life passes a species of existence fult oi terror to himself; not perceiving that ii one should fati upon men melded closely together, he adopta a rash and Perilous courae, and that it is not easy to anap the threetoid M.' Moreover, I put a poοr youst, ii ho bo Wise, b foro an aged princo devoid of Wisdom, to Whose thoughisit has nevis occurred that it is possibio that a man muhe mised from the prison to the throne, and that the very man who has exercised his poWer unrighinousj shali at a
sta το ετέρου - μως ἔχειν and ars led by an undi soning judgment, and by the impulso os a contrary spirit. But in exercising the princhoes ossice, k p thou this besorothine ves, that thino own lite bo rightly directed, and that
Jerome elisa tho pamam in his CommouisV on Eooleai tea. Tους ἔσοι προγενεστεροι. The aenae is incomplete, and wme mordamem miming in the text. Jeromo, in rendering this pamago in his Commentam on Ecclesiastea, turea it thua: ita autem ut sub sesie rege versari
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and anxieties of mind. Αnd what could there bo then moro absurd, than mitti much anxiety and troubie to amass wealth,
maintaining the occasion os countiem eviis to himself Τ Αndinis meiath, besides, must needs peristi some time or other, and be lost, Whether he who has acquired it has children or notand the man himself, howevor unWillingly, is doomed todie, and retum to earth in tho seissame condition in whichit Was his tot once in como into being. And the faci that he is destined thus to leave earth With empty hands, Willmine the evit ali the sorer to him, as he satis to considerstat an end is appotnted sor his lito similar to ita b inning, and that he totis to no profit, and laboura rather sor the inri as it Were, than for tho advancement of his own realinterest, Wasting his Wholo lise in most unlioly lusis and irrationes passions, and withal in troubles and pains. And, to speah shortly, his days are darknem to Such a man, and his lita is formis. Yet this is in iraeli good, and by nomoans to be despised . For it is tho gift oi God, that a manshould bo abis to reap With gladness of mind tho fruits of his laboura, receiving thus possessions besto ed by God, and not acquired by force.' For neither is sueti a man amicted mith tro les, nor is ho for tho most part tho flave os evilthoughis; but ho measures out his life by good deeds, being
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prospered in ali inings, as though the onj ill inflicted on iam iram heaven were just the inabili to enjoy them, may buth band them for his fellon, and falli without profit ei ther in
which are noW aro known Hready; and it bocomes apparent that man is unabis to contand with inose that arct abovehim. Ant verily, inanities have inela co se among men,
λ θάνατον πειραν οὐ λαβών, for Uin We must read probabου θανάτου,
μενος . . . ἐπιγνόν, or bellar, . . . ἀναμετρησαμέν . . . ἐπιγνωνα