Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 9:12

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 260, footnote 10 (Image)

Athanasius: Select Writings and Letters

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Defence of His Flight. (Apologia de Fuga.) (HTML)

The Lord's hour and time. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1457 (In-Text, Margin)

... man, but that no one knows the end of that time is plainly intimated by the words of David, ‘Declare unto me the shortness of my days.’ What he did not know, that he desired to be informed of. Accordingly the rich man also, while he thought that he had yet a long time to live, heard the words, ‘Thou fool, this night they are requiring thy soul: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?’ And the Preacher speaks confidently in the Holy Spirit, and says, ‘Man also knoweth not his time[Ecclesiastes 9:12].’ Wherefore the Patriarch Isaac said to his son Esau, ‘Behold, I am old, and I know not the day of my death.’ Our Lord therefore, although as God, and the Word of the Father, He both knew the time measured out by Him to all, and was conscious of the ...