Ecclesiastes 11:5 (WEB)
As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.
Fathers and councils · 2
Hippolytus of Rome
- Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §44On the Psalms
“And the Scripture also, in Ecclesiastes, adduces this, saying, “As thou knowest not the bones in the womb of her that is with child, so thou shalt not know the works of God.”” — editor's note: Eccles. xi. 5.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“For indeed the word of Ecclesiastes says true; your heretic is no living man, but “bones,” he says, “in the womb of her that is with child”; for how can one who does not think of the unction along with the Anointed be said to believe in the Anointed?” — editor's note: Eccles. xi. 5 (LXX.). οὐκ ἔστι γινωσκων τίς ἡ ὁδὸς τοῦ πνεύματος, ὡς ὀστᾶ ἐν γαστρὶ κυοφορούσης
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §44.