Sirach 10:4 (WEB)
The government of the earth is in the Lord’s hand. In due time, he will raise up over it the right person at the right time.
Fathers and councils · 1
- Origen, Against Celsus VIII.68Book VIII
“If, then, “there shall be one lord, one king,” he must be, not the man “whom the son of crafty Saturn appointed,” but the man to whom He gave the power, who “removeth kings and setteth up kings,” and who “raiseth up the useful man in time of need upon earth.”” — editor's note: Ecclus. x. 4. (LXX.).
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Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.68.