Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 1:7

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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 ...