Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiastes 3:14
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 385, footnote 11 (Image)
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... that afterwards as if taught by experience He began to provide for something better, and to amend and improve His original arrangements. A thing which certainly cannot happen to the infinite foreknowledge of God, nor can these assertions be made about Him by the mad folly of heretics without grievous blasphemy, as Ecclesiastes says: “I have learnt that all the words which God hath made from the beginning shall continue forever: nothing can be added to them, and nothing can be taken away from them,”[Ecclesiastes 3:14] and therefore “the law is not made for the righteous, but for the unrighteous, and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the wicked and profane.” For as they had the sound and complete system of natural laws implanted in them they had no ...