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Ecc_2:16 For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.
Ver. 16. For there is no remembrance of the wise.] viz., Unless he be also wise to salvation, for then he shall be had in everlasting remembrance. Or otherwise, either he shall be utterly forgotten, as being not written among the living in Jerusalem, {Isa_4:3} or else he shall not have the happiness to be forgotten in the city where he had so done; {Ecc_8:10} I mean, where he had been either a dogmatic, or at least a practical atheist, as the very best of the philosophers were, {Rom_1:18-31 1Co_1:17-31} the choicest and the most picked men among them. {1Co_3:21}
And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.] {See Trapp on "Ecc_2:14"} {See Trapp on "Ecc_2:15"} Wise men die as well as fools, {Psa_49:10} good men die as well as bad, {Eze_21:4} yet with this difference, that "the righteous hath hope in his death," which to him is neither total, but of the body only; nor perpetual, but for a time only, till the day of refreshing. See both these, Rom_8:10-11.