a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
⛓ Read Ecclesiastes 3 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's catalogue 'those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice' faintly recalls Qoheleth's 'a time to weep and a time to laugh,' the sapiential relativizing of the emotional seasons of life. The link is thematic and the wording diverges; faint and contested.
Low confidence'a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance' faintly underlies the children's complaint about piping/dancing and mourning/lament.
Low confidence