[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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Mieux vaut aller dans une maison de deuil que d'aller dans une maison de festin; car c'est là la fin de tout homme, et celui qui vit prend la chose à coeur.
KJV
[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.
Fulgentius of Ruspe
On the Remission of Sins Book One
om you. Do not plant evil in the fields of wrongdoing, and you will not harvest it many times over" (Eccl. 7:1-3). The same book warns against adding sin upon sin and thinking God's mercy will cover it with these words: "Do not add sin to sin and say, 'God's mercy is great,' for…
John Chrysostom
NPNF1-11. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 184 (Migne)
Ecclesia, hujus istius exceptione servata. Novit enim quia melior est dies mortis die nativitatis (Eccl. VII, 2) , et quod ortus hominum tristitia comitetur. Inde est quod diem mortis martyrum, [Col. 0996A] non nativitatis solemnizat Ecclesia: mortem tamen eorum, natalitiorum n…
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