Ecclesiastes 3:7 (WEB)
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Fathers and councils · 8
Gregory of Nyssa
“It is not in time, but time flows from it; whereas the creation, starting from a manifest beginning, journeys onward to its proper end through spaces of time; so that it is possible, as Solomon somewhere says, to detect in it a beginning, an end, and a middle; and mark the sequence of its history by divisions of time.” — editor's note: Compare Eccles. iii. 1–11; and viii. 5, “and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.”
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.12Conference XXI
“…speak; a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace;” and below: “For there is a time,” it says, “for everything and for every deed.”” — editor's note: Eccl. iii. 1–8, 17.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For thus the God of all, after the manner of wise Solomon, distributes everything in time and season, to the end that, in due time, the salvation of men should be everywhere spread abroad.” — editor's note: Eccl. iii. 7. Cf. S. Cyril. Homil. Pasch. V.
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Basil the Great
“There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak, is the saying of the Preacher.” — editor's note: Eccles. iii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Or perhaps this was the time for silence spoken of by Solomon the wise.” — editor's note: Eccl. iii. 7.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For: “there is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.”” — editor's note: Eccles. iii. 7.
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Gregory the Great
“And again it is written, A time to keep silence, and a time to speak (Eccles. iii. 7).” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“When his disciples asked him to explain the matter somewhat more fully he said, “There is a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.”” — editor's note: Eccl. iii. 7.
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Cross-references · 33
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Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.15.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.15.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.15.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in Letters Letter 223.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.15.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.15.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.15.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.15.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.15.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.15.