1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Ecclesiastes 1:2 | Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, vanity of vanities, and all is vanity. | Vanities. Most vain and despicable, (Calmet) and frustrating the expectations of men. (Menochius) --- St. Augustine reads vanitantium, and infers that this vanity of sublunary things is an effect of man's sin. Yet he afterwards discovered that he had read incorrectly. (Retractions 1:7.) |