Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiastes 1:6
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 589, footnote 8 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
Origen. (HTML)
Origen Against Celsus. (HTML)
Book VI (HTML)
Chapter XXXV (HTML)
... them, and who show from the prophetic writings the events in the Gospels regarding Jesus have been fulfilled. But when Celsus speaks of “circles upon circles,” (he perhaps borrowed the expression) from the aforementioned heresy, which includes in one circle (which they call the soul of all things, and Leviathan) the seven circles of archontic demons, or perhaps it arises from misunderstanding the preacher, when he says: “The wind goeth in a circle of circles, and returneth again upon its circles.”[Ecclesiastes 1:6] The expression, too, “effluents of an earthly church and of circumcision,” was probably taken from the fact that the church on earth was called by some an efflu ent from a heavenly church and a better world; and that the circumcision described in ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 73, footnote 1 (Image)
Basil: Letters and Select Works
The Hexæmeron. (HTML)
Upon the gathering together of the waters. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1525 (In-Text, Margin)
In all the story of the waters remember this first order, “let the waters be gathered together.” To take their assigned places they were obliged to flow, and, once arrived there, to remain in their place and not to go farther. Thus in the language of Ecclesiastes, “All the waters run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.”[Ecclesiastes 1:6-7] Waters flow in virtue of God’s order, and the sea is enclosed in limits according to this first law, “Let the waters be gathered together unto one place.” For fear the water should spread beyond its bed, and in its successive invasions cover one by one all countries, and end by flooding the whole earth, it received the order to gather ...