...Amendment, insofar as it protects freedom of speech, are no exception to the law of life enunciated by Ecclesiastes : "For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven." And one of the instances specifically enumerated by the Preacher controls our...

...Amendment, insofar as it protects freedom of speech, are no exception to the law of life enunciated by Ecclesiastes: "For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven." And one of the instances specifically enumerated by the Preacher controls our...

...was well worth it. May I leave with you a few excerpts from the book of Ecclesiastes,. chapter 3 : For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven * * * a time to be born and a time to die * * * a time to keep silence and a time tospeak * * * a time for war and a time for peace....

...days and hours, but qualitative.15 Time is measured by its content; it depends what it is time for. 'For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven'. There is a time for planting and a time for uprooting, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time for...

...timing the needs of each psychological moment. Ecclesiastes has a remark about this time (Eccl. 3:1-11): For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up . . . ; a time to kill, and a time to heal;...

...in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time: the most famous passage being, of course, 3:1-8, 'For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die . . .'. Despite the repeated assertion that 'all is vanity' (ie pointlessness, emptiness),...

...mourners are left feeling responsible for their losses. Rather than having a faith for living in which "for everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven" (Eccles. 3:1), individuals whose losses remain a private concern are left with the task of rethinking...

...verb translated "happen", belongs to the same way of thinking as Ecclesiastes' famous poem beginning "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven" (3:1-9). The word for "fate" comes from the same root (Eccl. 2:14), and further emphasizes the point...

...blood of apocalyptic writings, can be nicely paralleled in Qoheleth's famous teaching, "for every thing there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven" (Eccl. 3:1). Both literatures concern themselves with creation /new creation theology and employ the...

...faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:21-23) Koheleth, the nom-de-plume for the preacher-poet of Ecclesiastes, wrote: For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: . . . a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted. (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 2) Marriage Is the planting season;...