It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

All Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 7:2 Go To Ecclesiastes 7

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Name. "It is necessary for the sake of others "(St. Augustine, de B. Vid. xxii.) particularly for those who have to direct souls. (St. Gregory in Ezechial) (Calmet) In this second part is shown that felicity is procured by a good life. (Worthington) Death. Speaking of the just, for death is the beginning of sorrows to the wicked. (Calmet) Some nations mourned on the birth-day of their children. (Val. Max. ii. 6.; Eurip in Ctes.)

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