He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.
All Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 5:10 Go To Ecclesiastes 5
Evagrius Ponticus
AD 399
If, he says, you see among people those on the one hand who are oppressed and those on the other who do wrong in judgment, and still others who practice justice, do not be amazed that this occurs as if there were no divine foresight. Rather, know that God guards everything through Christ and that he also exercises his provision over everything through his holy angels, who excel in their knowledge of earthly events. God is the ruler of the world that he created, and he allots suffering to those who prefer greed and the vanity of this life to knowledge of Christ. But to those who live their lives in goodness, conduct themselves with courage and serve justly, he grants the knowledge of God and a peaceful rest. He grants this whether their knowledge was small or great here, for “we know in part and we prophesy in part.” But in the end, he will receive these, while those who were filled with wickedness will find no rest from the worm produced by their evil. –.
