“Let us see what is the "vanity" to which the creation was subjected. My own opinion is, that this is nothing else than the possession of bodies, for even though the stars are composed of ether they are nevertheless material. This, it seems to me, is the reason why Solomon arraigns the whole bodily universe as being in…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 1:7.5
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2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
— Ecclesiastes 1:2 —
3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.