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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Eccl 3:7
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
Eccl 3:7 · Douay-Rheims
“A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.”
On this verse:
“rend--garments, in mourning (Joe 2:13); figuratively, nations, as Israel from Judah, already foretold, in Solomon's time (Kg1 11:30-31), to be "sewed" together hereafter (Eze 37:15, Eze 37:22). silence-- (Amo 5:13), in a national calamity, or that of a friend (Job 2:13); also not to murmur under God's visitation (Lev 10:3; Psa 39:1-2, Psa 39:9).”
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