[47] Compare with this chapter the first homily of Chrysostom to the people of Antioch.
[48] Rom. viii. 28.
[49] 1 Pet. iii. 4.
[50] 1 Tim. vi. 6-10.
[51] Job i. 21.
[52] 1 Tim. vi. 17-19.
[53] Matt. vi. 19-21.
[54] Paulinus was a native of Bordeaux, and both by inheritance and marriage acquired great wealth, which, after his conversion in his thirty-sixth year, he distributed to the poor. He became bishop of Nola in a.d. 409, being then in his fifty-sixth year. Nola was taken by Alaric shortly after the sack of Rome.
[55] Much of a kindred nature might be gathered from the Stoics. Antoninus says (ii. 14): "Though thou shouldest be going to live 3000 years, and as many times 10,000 years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and the shortest are thus brought to the same."
[56] Augustine expresses himself more fully on this subject in his tract, De cura pro mortuis gerenda.