Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Worldly delight is futile. With great expectation is it hoped for before it arrives; and when it does come, it cannot be held. This day, for example, which is a day of delight for wastrels in this city, will, of course, not be here tomorrow; nor indeed will those same people be tomorrow what they are today. All things pass away, and all things fly away, and vanish like smoke; and woe to those who love such things!
Augustine of Hippo, Homilies on the Gospel of John 1-40 (c. 406-20), trans. Edmund Hill, ed. Allan D. Fitzgerald, The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Volume 12 (Hyde Park NY: New City Press, 2009), 7.1, p. 145.
Augustine of Hippo, Homilies on the Gospel of John 1-40 (c. 406-20), trans. Edmund Hill, ed. Allan D. Fitzgerald, The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Volume 12 (Hyde Park NY: New City Press, 2009), 7.1, p. 145.
