For they said within themselves, with unsound reasoning, “Our life is short and sorrowful. There is no healing when a man comes to his end, and no one was ever known who was released from Hades.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. Right. He shews how the wicked brought death into the world, and expresses the sentiments of the epicureans, as in Ecclesiastes. The six first chapters are a sort of paraphrase of the nine first of Proverbs, in which the attractions of virtue and of pleasure are contrasted, and so forth Calmet.—Remedy. Lit. “refreshment.” Septuagint “healing.”—Hell, or the grave. Bible.—They reject as fabulous, the accounts of people being raised to life by miracle. Calmet.—They suppose that the soul is mortal, and that there is neither reward nor punishment after death. Worthington.
Or, among
Or, returned out of Hades