Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
A time to love, and a time to hate,.... For one to love his friend, and to hate a man, a sinner, as the Targum; to love a friend while he continues such, and hate him, or less love him, when he proves…
The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
A time to love, and a time, to hate Greek thought again supplies us with a parallel,
ἡμεῖς δὲ πῶς οὐ γνωσόμεσθα σωφρονεῖν ;
ἐγὼ δʼ, ἐπίσταμαι γὰρ ἀρτίως ὅτι
ὅ τʼ ἐχθρὸς ἡμῖν ἐς τοσόνδʼ ἐχθαρτέος,
ὡς…
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