Holy Scripture

Ecclesiastes 3:20

A church father on this verse
“The resurrection as a fact is not to be rejected because of an exceptional situation. Yet, since all things earthly return and crumble into the earth, I wonder how there can be any doubt even concerning the instances noted. For the most part, the sea itself also casts up on neighboring shores whatever human bodies it…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On the Death of Satyrus 2.58

Source: Septuagint

Original

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

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In context

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.

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.

— Ecclesiastes 3:20 —

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?

22And I saw that there was no good, But that wherein a man shall rejoice in his works, For it is his portion, For who shall bring him to see anything of that which shall be after him?

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