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Dionysius of Alexandria, on Eccl 3:11
Dionysius of Alexandria · d. A.D. 264
Eccl 3:11 · Douay-Rheims
“He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.”
On this verse:
“Of all these things there is not one either idle or useless. Not even the meanest of them—the hair, or the nails, or such like—is so; but all have their service to do, and all their contribution to make, some of them to the soundness of bodily constitution and others of them to beauty of appearance. For Providence cares not only for the useful but also for the seasonable and beautiful.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.