Holy Scripture

Ecclesiastes 1:9

A church father on this verse
“We say that not then for the first time did God begin to work when he made this visible world; but as, after its destruction, there will be another world, so also we believe that others existed before the present came into being. And both of these positions will be confirmed by the authority of Holy Scripture. For tha…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3:5.3

Source: Septuagint

Original

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.

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7All the rivers run into the sea; And yet the sea is not filled: To the place whence the rivers come, Thither they return again.

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.

— Ecclesiastes 1:9 —

10Who is he that shall speak and say, Behold, this is new? It has already been in the ages That have passed before us.

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.

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