Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 1:10
A church father on this verse
“"Is there anything whereof it may be said, see this is new? It has already been for ages, which were before us. "Symmachus translated this more clearly: "Do you think there is a man who is able to say: look this is new, it has already been done before because it was before us." But he agrees with his predecessors that…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10Who is he that shall speak and say, Behold, this is new? It has already been in the ages That have passed before us.
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8All things are full of labor; A man will not be able to speak of them: Neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, Neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.
9What is that which has been? the very thing which shall be: And what is that which has been done? the very thing which shall be done: And there is no new thing under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 1:10 —
11There is no memorial to the first things; Neither to the things that have been last Shall their memorial be With them that shall be at the last time.
12I the Preacher Was king over Israel in Jerusalem.