Ecclesiastes, the Preacher
⭑ Catholic Public Domain Version 2009 ⭑
- Chapter 3 -
For everything there is a time
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God's works are eternal
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From dust to dust
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Footnotes
(a)3:2 The pulling up of what was planted is not so much harvesting, as it is rooting out or removing the entire plant, as one might do for weeds or for plants that are no longer useful.(Conte)
(b)3:3 Literally: ‘a time to be killing and a time to be healing.’ The verb ‘occidendi’ is a future passive participle, like the other verbs in this passage.(Conte)
(c)3:19
Man has nothing more, etc: Viz., as to the life of the body.(Challoner)
(d)3:21
Who knows, etc: Viz., experimentally: since no one in this life can see a spirit. But as to the spirit of the beasts, which is merely animal, and become extinct by the death of the beast, who can tell the manner it acts so as to give life and motion, and by death to descend downward, that is, to be no more?(Challoner)