Ecclesiastes 1:17 (WEB)
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
Fathers and councils · 2
Gregory of Nazianzus
“And when he had been entrusted with it, the grace was the more glorified, being really the grace of God, and not of men, and not, as the preacher says, an independent impulse and purpose of spirit.” — editor's note: Eccles. i. 17; LXX.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And this also is the choice of the spirit, because in abundance of wisdom is abundance of knowledge.”” — editor's note: Eccles. i. 16, 17, 18.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.13.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.13.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.13.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.13.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.13.