“Neither stored silver nor tested gold will be of any further use. A mighty blow will strike everything, right down to the water pot standing next to a well, and to a carriage wheel which happens to have been left in the ditch, its time of revolving ceased, and to the life that, by water, has passed through the age of washing. For people lying on earth there is one salvation, if their souls acknowledge and fly up to the One by whom they were bought into being.”
Gregory Thaumaturgus (213-270), Christian Bishop in Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes 12.6-7. GTPE 296, 298.