THEOSISEcclesiastes 3:18Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.
אָמַ֤רְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ בְּלִבִּ֔י עַל־דִּבְרַת֙ בְּנֵ֣י הָאָדָ֔ם לְבָרָ֖ם הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְלִרְא֕וֹת שְׁהֶם־בְּהֵמָ֥ה הֵ֖מָּה לָהֶֽם׃
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- Ps 73 (72):22
- Ps 49 (48):12
- Heb 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:
- Gen 3:17And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
- Gen 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
- 2 Pet 2:12But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption:
- Rom 9:23That he might shew the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared unto glory?
- Ps 90 (89):5