Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 1:2
A church father on this verse
“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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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In context
1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king of Israel in Jerusalem.
— Ecclesiastes 1:2 —
3What advantage is there to a man In all his labor that he takes under the sun?
4A generation goes, and a generation comes: But the earth stands forever.