And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
J'ai appliqué mon coeur à connaître la sagesse, et à connaître la sottise et la folie; j'ai compris que cela aussi c'est la poursuite du vent.
KJV
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
Clement of Alexandria + Hermas + Tatian
ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire)
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 90 (Migne)
digno honore cultum est. Haeresis [Note: [Col. 0562D] Pelagius . . . . SS. Germanus et Lupus. Hist. Eccl., I, 17.] Pelagiana Brittanorum turbat fidem, qui, a Gallicanis episcopis auxilium quaerentes, Germanum Autisiodorensis Ecclesiae episcopum et Lupum Trecasenum aeque apostolic…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 94 (Migne)
t sacerdotium. De hujus navigatione duplici in Britanniam ob refellendam Pelagii haeresin vide Hist. Eccl. I, 17 et seq., et Chronicon sub Martiano. Prosperi Chronologia qua statuitur eum primo in Britanniam a synodo Gallicana anno 429 cum Lupo Trecensi missum esse, videtur esse…
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