For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

כִּ֣י אָדָ֔ם אֵ֥ין צַדִּ֖יק בָּאָ֑רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יַעֲשֶׂה־טֹּ֖וב וְלֹ֥א יֶחֱטָֽא׃

Ecclesiastes 7:20

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Sin Original sin Human nature

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Ecclesiastes The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

931 BC 930s BC 10th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 7:20).

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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.

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Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 11.

Another quote from Classical antiquity

What is hateful to you do not to your neighbor: that is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary.

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Hillel the Elder
Source
Talmud
Medium
Scripture
Genre
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Statement Type
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Time
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Era
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Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

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Current Citation

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Another quote originally in Hebrew

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

Psalm 125:2

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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
450 BC 450s BC 5th century BC
Era
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Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 125:2).