To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
All Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 3:1 Go To Ecclesiastes 3
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
) for every purpose, and for every work. "At the day of judgment all will receive their due. (Haydock) Ver. 18. Beasts. Another doubt; or suggestion of infidels. (St. Gregory, Dial. iv. 4.) Ver. 19. Man hath nothing more, viz., as to the life of the body. (Challoner) Ver. 21. Who knoweth, viz., experimentally; since no one in this life can see a spirit. But as to the spirit 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, to be no more? (Challoner)
Few are able to prove that the soul of man is immortal rather than that of beasts, since the bodies of both are subject to the like inconveniences. The objection is answered chap. xii. 7. (Calmet)
The difficulty of answering is intimated by "Who?", Psalm xiv. 1. (Menochius) Ver. 22. 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)
