For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.
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Louis Segond 1910
Car le sort des fils de l'homme et celui de la bête sont pour eux un même sort; comme meurt l'un, ainsi meurt l'autre, ils ont tous un même souffle, et la supériorité de l'homme sur la bête est nulle; car tout est vanité.
KJV
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
th; because "all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than the beast," as it is written ( Eccles. 3:19 ). Therefore, as the same text concludes, "the death of man and beast is one, and the condition of both is equal." But the souls of brute animals are corruptible. The…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
od Who gave it." Again the process of life is alike as to the body, concerning which it is written ( Eccles. 3:19 ): "All things breathe alike," and ( Wis. 2:2 ), "The breath in our nostrils is smoke." But the process is not alike of the soul; for man is intelligent, whereas anim…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
death and other bodily defects are similarly found in man as well as in other animals, according to Eccles. 3:19, "The death of man and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both equal." But in dumb animals death is not a punishment of sin. Therefore neither is it so in men…
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