Ecclesiastes 1:8 (WEB)
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
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- Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.11On the Making of Man
“…by the speech undertaking to hear; for the latter is always uttering something, while the ear, as Solomon somewhere says, is not filled with continual hearing.” — editor's note: Cf. Eccles. i. 8. The quotation is not from the LXX.: it is perhaps not intended to be verbal.
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