Eccl 3:3

“"A time for killing and a time for healing." It is both the time for killing and the time for healing, he says: "I will kill, and I will revive" [Deut. 32, 39.]. He cures, provoking one to repentance. 'I killed' has the same meaning as "in the morning I murdered all the sinners of the Earth." [Ps. 100.8.] "A time for destroying and a time for building. "We are not able to build anything good unless we have first destroyed what is bad. Just as the word of Jeremiah came from God so that he first rooted out, undermined and killed; then he built and planted. [Ier.. I, 10.]”

“As to the rise and decline of sentient beings, he adds: A time to kill; and a time to kill is placed first, and a time to heal follows, on account of the state of corrupted nature, which has grown more prevalent, so that health does not have a place. Concerning this variation, Deuteronomy 32: "I will kill, and I will make to live"; and again, 2 Kings 8: "He measured two lines, one to put to death and one to keep alive." As to the rise and decline of artificial things, he adds fourthly: A time to destroy, behold the decline; and a time to build, behold the restoration of what was destroyed. Things that are ruinous must be destroyed: Luke 19: "There shall not be left in you a stone upon a stone." A time to build, when there is abundance of resources: Luke 12: "I will destroy my barns and build greater ones"; Haggai 1: "Bring wood, build the house, and it shall be acceptable to me." And thus there is no permanence in the passing of things. Spiritually, third, among the baptized there is a time of killing the movement of concupiscence: Colossians 3: "Mortify your members which are upon the earth"; and there is a time of healing the power of nature: Jeremiah 30: "I will close up your scar and heal you of your wounds." Fourth, there is a time of destroying and of building among the baptized, because the dwelling of the devil is destroyed and a dwelling of Christ is made: 1 Peter 2: "Coming to him as to a living stone, be yourselves also built up into spiritual houses"; Jeremiah 1: "I have set you over nations and kingdoms, to uproot and to destroy and to scatter and to build and to plant."”