Verse 8. — 'Their seed remains before them.' 46. To the increase of great happiness, heirs are given together with a great patrimony; and lest even some temporal necessity should withdraw from their eyes those in whom the mind exults, of this their seed it is said: 'It remains before them.' But what if children are given, yet they themselves are struck with barrenness? Thus in them the line is extinguished, just as it was feared to be extinguished by the barrenness of the parents. There follows: 'The crowd of their kinsmen and grandchildren in their sight.' Behold, life is present, honors and riches are present, children are present, grandchildren are present. But what if some inner thought should burn the mind, and a domestic quarrel should pierce through the joys of security? What is the happiness of this world, if it is not glad?