mean when it says, "All of a person's labor is for their mouth, yet their soul is not satisfied" in Ecclesiastes 6:7? How can everything a person works for be just for their mouth? The wise and learned churchman dedicates himself to his words. Everything he learns from the Holy…

d too is most desirable: indeed, nearly all the toil of man's life is directed thereto, according to Eccles. 6:7, "All the labor of man is for his mouth." Yet gluttony seems to be about pleasures of food rather than about food itself; wherefore, as Augustine says (De Vera Relig.…

y wants is that by which it lives. Wherefore it is said, “All the labour of man is for his mouth.” [ Eccl 6:7 ] Theophylact: Or else; that widow is the soul of man, which leaving Satan to which it had been joined, casts into the temple two mites, that is, the flesh and the mind,…