OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 3:11

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He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

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Verse 11. Consideration. Lit. “dispute.” Hebrew and Septuagint “heart.” Bible.—Pagn. “He has implanted the desire of immortality in their hearts.”—End. If we could discover the properties of each thing, we should be in raptures; ( Calmet.) but as we cannot, this increases our vexation. Menochius.

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