Ecclesiastes

1. Letters Basil of Caesarea 2 authority 2 citations

   letter 223 · letter 263

   Explicitly named as 'the word of Ecclesiastes'.

   "There is a time to be silent, and a time to speak," says the word of Ecclesiastes.

2. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 authority 2 citations

   book 1 · book 5

   Explicitly introduced as 'It is written, at any rate, in Ecclesiastes', followed by direct quotation on the pursuit of wisdom.

   "And I added wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem;

3. Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 2 authority 2 citations

   chapter 2 · chapter 25

   The hermit explicitly names Solomon as the source for the teaching on vanity.

   Then indeed, then, I understood and saw, and behold, all present things are vanity and a striving after wind, as Solomon the most wise also says somewhere in his writings.

4. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 24

   Solomon's Ecclesiastes is explicitly cited by chapter number as parallel biblical authority.

   For the divine sentence, that the bodyshould return to the dust, from which it was taken, was not passed upon Adam only, but, as we find it acknowledged by the writings of Greece and Rome, extended to the whole human race, Cicero, from the Hypsipyle of Euripides, says, “Earth must be returned to earth, “ and in the twelfth chapter of Solomon’s Ecclesiastes, there is a passage to the same purport, …

5. The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 22

   Charles explicitly cites 'Eccles. viii. 4' by chapter and verse as scriptural authority for royal power.

   And for the question now in hand, there it is said, that ‘where the word of a King is, there is power;

6. Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   book 5

   Explicitly named ('Ecclesiastes too says') as source of the 'time for everything' citation.

   And in his own time we shall reap, because Ecclesiastes too says, There will be a time for everything.

7. De Monogamia Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de monogamia

   Ecclesiastes is explicitly named as the source of 'there is a time for everything'

   Therefore, if all these things obliterate the licence of marrying—both by inspection of the condition of the licence and by the imposition of the preference for continence—why could not the same Spirit, coming after the apostles to lead discipline into all truth through the gradations of the times (according to Ecclesiastes, "There is a time for everything"), now lay upon the flesh its final clasp …

8. De Virginibus Velandis Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de virginibus velandis

   Directly cited: 'In short, Ecclesiastes says, "A time for everything."'

   In short, Ecclesiastes says, "A time for everything.

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