“A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”
The final pair—time for war and peace—extends the pattern to the largest scale of human conflict and community. War and peace represent the extremes of human social existence, the worst and best of what collective human action can produce. Yet by placing them within the pattern of divinely ordained times, Qohelet suggests that neither represents the ultimate reality; both are temporary states within a larger order.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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