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Selected Verse: Ecclesiates 3:8 - King James

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Ec 3:8 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).
 
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31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.