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Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Et j'ai trouvé les morts qui sont déjà morts plus heureux que les vivants qui sont encore vivants,

KJV

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Patristic reading

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  • Eucherius of Lyon

    Book of Spiritual Intelligence Formulas

    it can also refer to the morally corrupt, as in Solomon: "I praised the dead more than the living" (Ecclesiastes 4:2). The Dead symbolize sinners or unbelievers. In the Gospel: "Let the dead bury their own dead" (Matthew 8:22). But in a good sense, it refers to those who die in f…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 95 (Migne)

    igitur apud Doruvernenses constituta satis celebris fuit etiam ante Theodorum archiepiscopum (Hist. eccl. IV, 2) . Cum vero praesul ille doctissimus [Col. 0341A] cum Hadriano abbate Britanniam pervenerit, ampliorem illam longe et illustriorem reddidit. «Et quia litteris sacris…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 95 (Migne)

    e et Adrianus scholas aperuerint? Nonne hoc ipso capite in quo de eorum schola Baeda loquitur (Hist. eccles. IV, 2) , apertissime [Col. 0343C] pronuntiat musicam ecclesiasticam eatenus, hoc est a temporibus discipulorum B. papae Gregorii ad Theodorum usque, in Cantia notam fuiss…

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