Holy Scripture

Ecclesiastes 3:19

A church father on this verse
“Animals are mortal beings without reason, angels are immortal beings with reason, human beings are mortal beings with reason. Regarding mortality the human being is grouped together with beings without reason. Regarding reason [the human being] is grouped together with the immortal beings, since angels also have reaso…”
Didymus the Blind, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON ECCLESIASTES 99:1

Source: Septuagint

Original

19Also to them is the event of the sons of man, And the event of the brute; One event befalls them: As is the death of the one, so also the death of the other; And there is one breath to all: And what has the man more than the brute? Nothing; for all is vanity.

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In context

17And I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the ungodly: For there is a time there for every action And for every work.

18I said in my heart, Concerning the speech of the sons of man, God will judge them, And that to show that they are beasts.

— Ecclesiastes 3:19 —

20All go to one place; All were formed of the dust, And all will return to dust.

21And who has seen the spirit of the sons of man, Whether it goes upward? And the spirit of the beast, Whether it goes downward to the earth?

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