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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 3:8 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Ec 3:8	Strong Concordance	A time [06256] to love [0157], and a time [06256] to hate [08130]; a time [06256] of war [04421], and a time [06256] of peace [07965].
	King James	A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
hate--for example, sin, lusts (Luk 14:26); that is, to love God so much more as to seem in comparison to hate "father or mother," when coming between us and God. a time of war . . . peace-- (Luk 14:31).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

hate--for example, sin, lusts (Luk 14:26); that is, to love God so much more as to seem in comparison to hate "father or mother," when coming between us and God.

a time of war . . . peace-- (Luk 14:31).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
"To love has its time, and to hate has its time; war has its time, and peace has its time." In the two pairs of contrasts here, the contents of the first are, not exclusively indeed (Psa 120:7), but yet chiefly referred to the mutual relations of peoples. It is the result of thoughtful intention that the quodlibet of 2 x 7 pairs terminates this for and against in "peace;" and, besides, the author has made the termination emphatic by this, that here "instead of infinitives, he introduces proper nouns" (Hitz.).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

"To love has its time, and to hate has its time; war has its time, and peace has its time." In the two pairs of contrasts here, the contents of the first are, not exclusively indeed (Psa 120:7), but yet chiefly referred to the mutual relations of peoples. It is the result of thoughtful intention that the quodlibet of 2 x 7 pairs terminates this for and against in "peace;" and, besides, the author has made the termination emphatic by this, that here "instead of infinitives, he introduces proper nouns" (Hitz.).

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
To love - When God stirs up love, or gives occasion for the exercise of it.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

To love - When God stirs up love, or gives occasion for the exercise of it.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
A time to love, - hate, - of war, - of peace - "Love turns to hatred; interest or caprice Dissolves the firmest knot by friendship tied. O'er rival nations, with revenge inflamed, Or lust of power, fell Discord shakes awhile Her baleful torch: now smiling Peace returns." The above paraphrase on the verses cited contains a general view of the principal occurrences of time, in reference to the human being, from his cradle to his grave, through all the operations of life.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

A time to love, - hate, - of war, - of peace -

"Love turns to hatred; interest or caprice

Dissolves the firmest knot by friendship tied.

O'er rival nations, with revenge inflamed,

Or lust of power, fell Discord shakes awhile

Her baleful torch: now smiling Peace returns."

The above paraphrase on the verses cited contains a general view of the principal occurrences of time, in reference to the human being, from his cradle to his grave, through all the operations of life.

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