The house — Where mourners meet to celebrate the funeral of a deceased friend. That — Death. The living — Will be seriously affected with it, whereas feasting is commonly attended with levity, and manifold temptations.
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Ecclesiastes 7:2
2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.