ACC ~ James 4 v14

THE VAPOR OF TEMPORAL GOODS. AUGUSTINE: Restoring health for a time to a man’s body amounts to no more than extending his breath for a little while longer. Therefore it should not be considered of great importance, because it is temporal, not eternal. SERMONS 124.1.

OUR TEMPORAL LABOR VANISHES. OECUMENIUS: James says this in order to indicate just how fleeting and empty our present life is. He wants to make us ashamed of the fact that we spend all our time engaged in its vanity, and in the evils of this age and in things which, as soon as they are accomplished, disappear, and all our labor vanishes with them. COMMENTARY ON JAMES.

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