Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 3:22

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 51, footnote 17 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 831 (In-Text, Margin)

... for thee, O Absalom, my son!” Moses, too, and Aaron, and the rest of the saints were mourned for with a solemn mourning. The answer to your reasoning is simple. Jacob, it is true, mourned for Joseph, whom he fancied slain, and thought to meet only in the grave (his words were: “I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning”), but he only did so because Christ had not yet broken open the door of paradise, nor quenched with his blood the flaming sword and the whirling of the guardian cherubim.[Ecclesiastes 3:16-22] (Hence in the story of Dives and Lazarus, Abraham and the beggar, though really in a place of refreshment, are described as being in hell.) And David, who, after interceding in vain for the life of his infant child, refused to weep for it, knowing ...