And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Solomon slept That is, died. He was then about fifty-eight years of age, having reigned forty years. (Challoner)
St. Chrysostom, at different times, seems to have entertained opposite opinions on this head, (Haydock) which has been a matter of controversy among the Fathers, as it is at present with us. We ought to adore and imitate, with trembling, the silence of Scripture. (Calmet)
Septuagint seem favourable to Solomon: (Proverbs xxiv. 32.) "At last I did penance, and looked forward, to embrace discipline. "(Haydock)
But the Hebrew, Chaldean, and Vulgate have nothing similar. (Calmet)
Some think that the Book of Proverbs, as well as that of Ecclesiastes, was composed by him after his repentance; and that he expresses his sentiments of affliction and self-condemnation, (Proverbs xxx. 2.) and his opinion of all earthly gratifications, Ecclesiastes i. 2. (Haydock)
Yet this dreadful uncertainty may serve to keep us all in humble fear, and teach us to work out our salvation with tremb...
