Sirach 39:21 (WEB)
No one can say, “What is this?” “Why is that?” for all things are created for their own uses.
Fathers and councils · 2
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.75Book IV
“And do not say, What is this? or Wherefore is that? for everything shall be sought out in its season.”” — editor's note: Cf. Ecclus. xxxix. 21, and 16, 17.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 31, and Ecclus. xxxix. 21. Evil, with Augustin, is a “privation of good.” See iii. sec. 12, note, above.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Confessions VII.12.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.75.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.75.