"If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he."
I pondered on what it means to have no burial. The footnote didn't answer it for me. I could think of two things. One, was the burial of baptism by immersion. If one was never baptized you cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The other reason to never be buried would be that I never died, or was immortal. So if I never died and did no good, then it would have been better to never been born for it profited me nothing.
Day 1240
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