Solomon asserted that it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, mirroring something Jesus said at the very outset of his public ministry. “Blessed are those who mourn,” Christ declared, “for they shall be comforted”—which seems a strange rationale. Wouldn’t it be better to skip the mourning altogether, and thereby mitigate the need for comforting? Apparently not.

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