Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 8:14

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 423, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

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Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New Testaments. (HTML)

What Solomon, in the Book of Ecclesiastes, Says Regarding the Things Which Happen Alike to Good and Wicked Men. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1319 (In-Text, Margin)

... life under the sun, unquestionably alluding to those evils which we see befall good and bad men alike. He says, further, that the good suffer the ills of life as if they were evil doers, and the bad enjoy the good of life as if they were good. “There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked: again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said, that this also is vanity.”[Ecclesiastes 8:14] This wisest man devoted this whole book to a full exposure of this vanity, evidently with no other object than that we might long for that life in which there is no vanity under the sun, but verity under Him who made the sun. In this vanity, then, ...