a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
We live in a wheel of nature where one spoke is uppermost, then another; constant ebbing and flowing, waxing and waning. Every change concerning us is fixed by a supreme power, and we cannot alter what is appointed. So in prosperity, be easy yet not secure, humble and even-minded, neither lifted up with hopes nor cast down with fears.
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Commenting on Ecclesiastes 3:1-10
A time to love, and a time to hate,.... For one to love his friend, and to hate a man, a sinner, as the Targum; to love a friend while he continues such, and hate him, or less love him, when he proves treacherous and unfaithful; an instance of a change of love into hatred may be seen in the case of Amnon, Sa2 13:15.
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).