Athanasius (ancient Church Bishop / advocate for Nicaea): Ecclesiastes "a time to live and to die"

Apologia de Fuga #14

 This is written in the

Scriptures and is manifest

to all.  For although it be hidden

and unknown to all, what period

of time is alloted in each, and how

it is allotted; yet every one knows

this, that as there is a time for

spring and for summer,

and for autumn and for winter, 

so as it is written, there is 

a time to die, and a time to live"