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LXX- Greek Septuagint - Ecclesiastes 3:20

τα 3588 παντα 3956 πορευεται 4198 5736 εις 1519 τοπον 5117 ενα 1520 τα 3588 παντα 3956 εγενετο 1096 5633 απο 575 του 3588 χοος και 2532 τα 3588 παντα 3956 επιστρεφει εις 1519 τον 3588 χουν 5522

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And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

King James Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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Ecclesiastes 3:20

Early Christian Commentary - (A.D. 100 - A.D. 325)

Anf-01 v.iii.ix Pg 12
Gen. iii. 19.

But let every one of you keep the Sabbath after a spiritual manner, rejoicing in meditation on the law, not in relaxation of the body, admiring the workmanship of God, and not eating things prepared the day before, nor using lukewarm drinks, and walking within a prescribed space, nor finding delight in dancing and plaudits which have no sense in them.690

690 Reference is here made to well-known Jewish opinions and practices with respect to the Sabbath. The Talmud fixes 2000 cubits as the space lawful to be traversed. Philo (De Therap.) refers to the dancing, etc.

And after the observance of the Sabbath, let every friend of Christ keep the Lord’s Day as a festival, the resurrection-day, the queen and chief of all the days [of the week]. Looking forward to this, the prophet declared, “To the end, for the eighth day,”691

691


Anf-01 viii.vi.xxx Pg 4
Gen. iii. 19.

calls the lifeless body of Hector dumb clay. For in condemnation of Achilles dragging the corpse of Hector after death, he says somewhere:2580

2580 Iliad, xxii.

“On the dumb clay he cast indignity, Blinded with rage.”


Anf-01 ix.vii.xvii Pg 2
Gen. iii. 19.

If then, after death, our bodies return to any other substance, it follows that from it also they have their substance. But if it be into this very [earth], it is manifest that it was also from it that man’s frame was created; as also the Lord clearly showed, when from this very substance He formed eyes for the man [to whom He gave sight]. And thus was the hand of God plainly shown forth, by which Adam was fashioned, and we too have been formed; and since there is one and the same Father, whose voice from the beginning even to the end is present with His handiwork, and the substance from which we were formed is plainly declared through the Gospel, we should therefore not seek after another Father besides Him, nor [look for] another substance from which we have been formed, besides what was mentioned beforehand, and shown forth by the Lord; nor another hand of God besides that which, from the beginning even to the end, forms us and prepares us for life, and is present with His handiwork, and perfects it after the image and likeness of God.


Anf-01 ix.viii.xiv Pg 4
Gen. iii. 19.

as the true course of things proceeds [now and always]. Then again, if the serpent observed the woman not eating, how did he induce her to eat who never had eaten? And who pointed out to this accursed man-slaying serpent that the sentence of death pronounced against them by God would not take [immediate] effect, when He said, “For in the day that ye eat thereof, ye shall surely die?” And not this merely, but that along with the impunity4820

4820 The Greek reads the barbarous word ἀθριξίᾳ, which Massuet thinks is a corruption of ἀθανασίᾳ, immortality. We have, however, followed the conjecture of Harvey, who would substitute ἀπληξίᾳ, which seems to agree better with the context.

[attending their sin] the eyes of those should be opened who had not seen until then? But with the opening [of their eyes] referred to, they made entrance upon the path of death.


Anf-03 v.iv.vi.ix Pg 11
Gen. iii. 19. [“Was not said unto the Soul”—says our own Longfellow, in corresponding words.]

That, therefore, which came from the ground shall return to the ground. Now that falls down which returns to the ground; and that rises again which falls down. “Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection.”5590

5590


Anf-03 v.v.xxxi Pg 15
See Bible:Gen.4.10">Gen. ii. 21, 23; iii. 5, 19; iv. 10.

and yet it never intimated that they had been created by God. What will Hermogenes have to answer? That the human limbs must belong to Matter, because they are not specially mentioned as objects of creation? Or are they included in the formation of man? In like manner, the deep and the darkness, and the spirit and the waters, were as members of the heaven and the earth. For in the bodies the limbs were made, in the bodies the limbs too were mentioned. No element but what is a member of that element in which it is contained. But all elements are contained in the heaven and the earth.


Anf-03 v.viii.vi Pg 9
Comp. chap. ii. etc.

that are submissive to the bishop, to the presbytery, and to the deacons: may I have my portion with them from God! Labour together with one another; strive in company together; run together; suffer together; sleep together; and awake together, as the stewards, and associates,1106

1106 Or, “assessors.”

and servants of God. Please ye Him under whom ye fight, and from whom ye shall receive your wages. Let none of you be found a deserter. Let your baptism endure as your arms; your faith as your helmet; your love as your spear; your patience as a complete panoply. Let your works be the charge assigned to you, that you may obtain for them a most worthy1107

1107 Literally, “worthy of God.”

recompense. Be long-suffering, therefore, with one another, in meekness, and God shall be so with you. May I have joy of you for ever!1108

1108 Comp. Ignatius’ Epistle to the Ephesians, chap. ii.



Anf-03 v.viii.xviii Pg 10
Gen. iii. 19.

Even the man who has not heard the sentence, sees the fact. No death but is the ruin of our limbs. This destiny of the body the Lord also described, when, clothed as He was in its very substance, He said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”7389

7389


Anf-03 v.viii.xxvi Pg 3
Gen. iii. 19.

In respect, of course, to his fleshly substance, which had been taken out of the ground, and which was the first to receive the name of man, as we have already shown,7462

7462 See above, ch. v.

does not this passage give one instruction to interpret in relation to the flesh also whatever of wrath or of grace God has determined for the earth, because, strictly speaking, the earth is not exposed to His judgment, since it has never done any good or evil? “Cursed,” no doubt, it was, for it drank the blood of man;7463

7463


Anf-03 v.viii.lii Pg 14
Gen. iii. 19.

because it was taken out of the earth.  And it was from this circumstance that the apostle borrowed his phrase of the flesh being “sown,” since it returns to the ground, and the ground is the grand depository for seeds which are meant to be deposited in it, and again sought out of it. And therefore he confirms the passage afresh, by putting on it the impress (of his own inspired authority), saying, “For so it is written;”7686

7686


Anf-01 ii.ii.xvii Pg 3
Gen. xviii. 27.

Moreover, it is thus written of Job, “Job was a righteous man, and blameless, truthful, God-fearing, and one that kept himself from all evil.”74

74


Anf-01 v.iii.xii Pg 12
Gen. xviii. 27; Job xxx. 19.

before God. And David says, “Who am I before Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast glorified me hitherto?”721

721


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xvi Pg 6.1


Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxix Pg 6
Job iv. 16–18, Job xv. 15, Job iv. 19–21, Job v. 1–5.


Anf-01 ii.ii.ix Pg 3
Gen. v. 24; Heb. xi. 5. Literally, “and his death was not found.”

Noah, being found faithful, preached regeneration to the world through his ministry; and the Lord saved by him the animals which, with one accord, entered into the ark.


Anf-03 iv.ix.ii Pg 22
See Gen. v. 22, 24; Heb. xi. 5.

who did not first taste1157

1157 Or, perhaps, “has not yet tasted.”

death, in order that, being a candidate for eternal life,1158

1158 Æternitatis candidatus. Comp. ad Ux. l. i. c. vii., and note 3 there.

he might by this time show us that we also may, without the burden of the law of Moses, please God. Melchizedek also, “the priest of the most high God,” uncircumcised and inobservant of the Sabbath, was chosen to the priesthood of God.1159

1159 See above.

Lot, withal, the brother1160

1160


Anf-03 iv.xi.l Pg 6
Gen. v. 24; Heb. xi. 5.

and so was Elijah;1786

1786


Anf-03 v.viii.lviii Pg 12
Gen. v. 24; 2 Kings ii. 11.

—to what faith do these notable facts bear witness, if not to that which ought to inspire in us the belief that they are proofs and documents of our own future integrity and perfect resurrection? For, to borrow the apostle’s phrase, these were “figures of ourselves;”7738

7738


Anf-01 viii.iv.cxxxv Pg 4
Isa. lxv. 9–12.

Such are the words of Scripture; understand, therefore, that the seed of Jacob now referred to is something else, and not, as may be supposed, spoken of your people. For it is not possible for the seed of Jacob to leave an entrance for the descendants of Jacob, or for [God] to have accepted the very same persons whom He had reproached with unfitness for the inheritance, and promise it to them again; but as there the prophet says, ‘And now, O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord; for He has sent away His people, the house of Jacob, because their land was full, as at the first, of soothsayers and divinations;’2473

2473


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.v Pg 19.1


Npnf-201 iii.vi.iv Pg 7


Anf-03 v.viii.xiii Pg 3
Δίκαιος ὡς φοίνιξ ἀνθήσει, Sept. Ps. xcii. 12.—“like a palm tree” (A.V.). We have here a characteristic way of Tertullian’s quoting a scripture which has even the least bearing on his subject. [See Vol. I. (this series) p. 12, and same volume, p. viii.]

that is, shall flourish or revive, from death, from the grave—to teach you to believe that a bodily substance may be recovered even from the fire. Our Lord has declared that we are “better than many sparrows:”7368

7368


Anf-03 iv.iv.xv Pg 14
Ps. i. 1–3; xcii. 12–; 15.

If you have renounced temples, make not your own gate a temple. I have said too little. If you have renounced stews, clothe not your own house with the appearance of a new brothel.

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