A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
un temps pour lancer des pierres, et un temps pour ramasser des pierres; un temps pour embrasser, et un temps pour s'éloigner des embrassements;
KJV
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Salonius
Mystical Exposition on Ecclesiastes
e—they will be happy and rejoice in the glory of eternal happiness. What does it mean when it says: Ecclesiastes 3:5? A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them. What good is it to scatter stones, or what good is it to gather them, unless perhaps someone wants to build…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
herefore it should not be forbidden by a commandment of the Church. On the contrary, It is written ( Eccles. 3:5 ): "A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces." I answer that, When the newly married spouse is given to her husband, the minds of husband and wife are tak…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 106 (Migne)
gem gestiunt, renititur Ecclesiastes dicens: Tempus amplexandi, et tempus longe fieri a complexibus (Eccles. III, 5) . Et Apostolus: Tempus, inquit, breve est; reliquum est, ut qui habent uxores, tanquam non habentes sint; et qui utuntur hoc mundo, tanquam non utantur; et qui gau…
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