George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ecclesiastes 12:14
Error. Or hidden and secret things. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, "with every secret thing," (Protestants; Haydock) "every inadvertency." (Septuagint; Symmachus) (Calmet)
Error. Or hidden and secret things. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, "with every secret thing," (Protestants; Haydock) "every inadvertency." (Septuagint; Symmachus) (Calmet)
Verse Ecclesiastes 12:14. _FOR GOD SHALL BRING EVERY WORK INTO JUDGMENT_] This is the _reason_ why we should "fear God and keep his commandments." 1. Because there will be a _day of judgment_. 2. Ev...
This passage is properly regarded as the Epilogue of the whole book; a kind of apology for the obscurity of many of its sayings. The passage serves therefore to make the book more intelligible and mor...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Youth and old age (Ecclesiastes 12:1)_ 2. The concluding epilogue (Ecclesiastes 12:9) Ecclesiastes 12:1. Childhood and youth are vanity! That is the concludin
EPILOGUE. Ecclesiastes 12:9 is an editor's praise of Qoheleth, who is identified with Solomon, the sage compiler of proverbial wisdom, who wrote words of truth in a pleasing and elegant (acceptable)...
SECRET. hidden. EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44....
_For God shall bring every work into judgment_ Once again the Teacher brings into prominence what was indeed the outcome of the book; though, as history shews, the careless reader, still more the read...
DISCOURSE: 847 THE SUM OF ALL TRUE RELIGION Ecclesiastes 12:13. _Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter; Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall...
LET US HEAR THE CONCLUSION, &C.— _Let us hear the conclusion of the whole discourse. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for that is the business of every man;_ Ecclesiastes 12:14. _Because God shall...
C. MAN IS ADMONISHED TO WORK IN HARMONYWITH GOD BECAUSE GOD WILL BRING EVERY WORK INTO JUDGMENT. Ecclesiastes 12:14 TEXT 12:14 14 Because God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is h...
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. A summary of the second, and the more important part. The whole forms the epi...
IN LIFE REMEMBER DEATH AND JUDGMENT 1. The Creator is to be remembered in youth. When the powers of mind and body are failing, it will be too late. 1-7. Commentators have differed much as to the inte...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 12 YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD REMEMBER WHO MADE THEM – ECCLESIASTES 12:1-8 V1 Remember who...
Considering that the book is filled with complaints of the imperfection of earthly retribution, this announcement of a tribunal, at which “_every_ work,” “every _secret_ thing,” shall be brought into...
כִּ֤י אֶת ־כָּל ־מַֽעֲשֶׂ֔ה הָ אֱלֹהִ֛ים יָבִ
THE EPILOGUE In Which The Problem Of The Book Is Conclusively Solved Ecclesiastes 12:8 "STUDENTS," says the Talmud, "are of four kinds; they are like a sponge, a funnel, a strainer, and a sieve: lik...
“THE END OF THE MATTER” Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 This comparison of the human body to a house is extremely beautiful. The inference is obvious that our bodies are not ourselves, but only our tenement. Ou...
The preacher now proceeds in language full of poetic beauty to urge the young to remember their Creator. We then reach the epilogue of the sermon. It first repeats the theme as announced at the beginn...
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. (14) For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whet...
REFLECTIONS READER! may we not, after the perusal of this Chapter, and indeed from the whole of the Preacher's sermon, as contained in this book of the Ecclesiastes, take up both the wise man's direct...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 12. The Book of Ecclesiastes is, up to a certain point, the converse of the Book of Proverbs. (see NOTE TO PROVERBS below) It is the experience of a...
FOR GOD SHALL BRING EVERY WORK INTO JUDGMENT,.... Not in this life, but in the day of the great judgment, as the Targum explains it; that is, whatever has been done by men, from the beginning of the w...
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil. Ver. 14. _For God shall bring every work into judgment._] Full loath is sinful fl...
_Let us hear the conclusion_, &c. The sum of all that hath been said or written by wise men. _Fear God_ Which is put here for all the inward worship of God, reverence, and love, and trust, and a devot...
For God shall bring every work into Judgment, everything being revealed before Him on the Last Day, WITH EVERY SECRET THING, which men foolishly and fatuously believed they could hide before His omnis...
THE CONCLUSION OF THE BOOK...
"FOR GOD WILL BRING EVERY ACT TO JUDGMENT, EVERYTHING WHICH IS HIDDEN, WHETHER IT IS GOOD OR EVIL." Points To Note: 2 "with the final blow that is sharp enough to hurt, but shrewd enough to jolt us o...
8-14 Solomon repeats his text, VANITY OF VANITIES, ALL IS VANITY. These are the words of one that could speak by dear-bought experience of the vanity of the world, which can do nothing to ease men of...
FOR GOD SHALL BRING EVERY WORK INTO JUDGMENT: this is added either, 1. As a reason of what he last said, THIS IS THE WHOLE OF MAN, because all men must give an account to God of all their works, and...
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CONCLUSION (ECCLESIASTES 12:9). Having given his final verdict on his musings the writer changes into the third person. This was in order to stress the solemnity of what he was saying. Moving into the...
Ecclesiastes 12:13 I. Among the causes of a sceptical spirit I may assign the first place to that natural reaction against authority which results when the understanding is first emancipated from the...
Ecclesiastes 12:8 I. Koheleth has achieved the quest. He has solved the problem and given us his solution of it. He is about to repeat that solution. To give emphasis and force to the repetition, that...
Ecclesiastes 12:14 I. These words show, not only that each of us will be judged, but that each of us will be judged for each action of his life; not for his general character whether (taken altogether...
Ecclesiastes 12:1. _Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth:_ Now we get on solid ground. There is an irony in the advice, «Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to the young to be religious. The vanity of the world. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The great antidote against the diseases of youth, the love of mirth, the indulgence...
Ecclesiastes 12:1. _Remember now thy Creator._ Hebrews בוראיךְ _Boreicha,_ thy Creators. The word is plural, as אלהים _Elohim, Genesis 1:1_, designating the Divinity or Godhead, as Romans 1:20. Certai...
_For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil _ THE GREAT DAY OF JUDGMENT I. Prove the absolute certainty of a day of general judgm...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 12:8 Final Conclusion and Epilogue. The Preacher restates his claim that all is “vanity.” The epilogue affirms the wisdom of the Preacher, summons the reader to pay c...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 12:13 The Preacher has already pointed out the need to FEAR GOD (see note on 5:1–7) and to KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS (compare...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 12:12. MY SON.] An expression appropriate to the master of wisdom when addressing his pupils; equivalent to “my scholar,” or “dear reader.” (Proverbs 1:8.) OF MAKING MANY...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 12:1 The division into chapters is unfortunate here, as this verse is closely connected with Ecclesiastes 12:10 of the preceding chapter. REMEMBER NOW THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS...
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth (Ecclesiastes 12:1), It is interesting that most conversions are made during the teenage years. Seven-eighths of every decision for Jesus Christ is m...
1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Acts 17:30; Acts 17:31;...
THE RELIGION UNDER THE SUN Ecclesiastes 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We use the word "religion" in preference to "Christianity." There are many religions; there is but one Christianity, one Christ. There...
For — All men must give an account to God of all their works, and this alone will enable them to do that with joy. Every secret — Not only outward and visible actions, but even inward and secret thoug...