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Ecc_8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.
Ver. 10. And so I saw the wicked buried.] With pomp and great solemnity, funeral orations, statues, and epitaphs, &c., as if he had been another Josiah or Theodosius; so do men overwhelm this mouse with praises proper to the elephant, as the proverb hath it.
Who had come and gone from the place of the holy.] That is, From the place of magistracy, seat of judicature, where the holy God himself sits as Chief President and Lord Paramount. {Deu_1:17 2Ch_19:6 Psa_82:1}
And they were forgotten in the city where they had so done.] A great benefit to a wicked man to have his memory die with him, which if it be preserved stinks in keeping, and remains as a curse and perpetual disgrace, as one very well senseth it. {a}
{a} Pemble