If the clouds be full of rain, they empty [themselves] upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
KJV
Hebrew original
אִם יִמָּלְא֨וּ הֶ/עָבִ֥ים גֶּ֨שֶׁם֙ עַל הָ/אָ֣רֶץ יָרִ֔יקוּ וְ/אִם יִפּ֥וֹל עֵ֛ץ בַּ/דָּר֖וֹם וְ/אִ֣ם בַּ/צָּפ֑וֹן מְק֛וֹם שֶׁ/יִּפּ֥וֹל הָ/עֵ֖ץ שָׁ֥ם יְהֽוּא
Louis Segond 1910
Quand les nuages sont pleins de pluie, ils la répandent sur la terre; et si un arbre tombe, au midi ou au nord, il reste à la place où il est tombé.
KJV
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty [themselves] upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Salonius
Mystical Exposition on Ecclesiastes
says: "If a tree falls to the south or to the north, in whatever place it falls, there it will lie" (Ecclesiastes 11:3)? Doesn't a tree that falls to the north or the south often get moved to other parts of the world? No one doubts this, but this statement should be understood s…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
or demeriting. Therefore there will be no place for blasphemy. Objection 3: Further, it is written ( Eccles. 11:3 ) that "the tree . . . in what place soever it shall fall, there shall it be": whence it clearly follows that, after this life, man acquires neither merit nor sin, wh…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
: Further, after death there accrues to man no merit or demerit that he had not before, according to Eccles. 11:3, "If the tree fall to the south, or to the north, in what place soever it shall fall, there shall it be." Now many who are damned, in this life hoped and never despai…
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