Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

The way of the sun's return to the East was unknown to the Jews, who made no attempt to explain it. St. Jerome says: '-'The sun, which was given to men to afford them light, daily indicates the destruction of the world, by his rising and setting. After he has dipped his burning wheel in the ocean, he returns by ways unknown to us to the place whence he set out, and having finished his nightly course, he again eagerly issues forth from his chamber."

"Pain." The study of wisdom is attended with much difficulty, and mental effort. Although it affords pleasure, it requires privations, and creates anxious feeling.