Consideration. Literally, "dispute." Hebrew and Septuagint, "heart." (Haydock) --- Pagnin, "He has implanted the desire of immortality in their hearts." --- End. If we could discover the properties of each thing, we should be in raptures; (Calmet) but as we cannot, this increases our vexation. (Menochius)
Verse Ecclesiastes 3:11. _BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME_] God's works are well done; there are order, harmony, and beauty in them all. Even the _caterpillar_ is a finished beauty in all the _changes_ through...
Rather, He hath made all (the travail, Ecclesiastes 3:10) beautiful (fit, in harmony with the whole work of God) in its time; also He hath set eternity in their heart (i. e., the heart of the sons of...
2. FURTHER RESULTS OF THE SEARCH CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The times of man under the sun (Ecclesiastes 3:1)_ 2. When then is the good? (Ecclesiastes 3:12) 3. Concerning judgment and the future ...
From one point of view this section may be entitled _In Praise of Opportunism,_ from another _Human Helplessness._ Every action in which man can engage has its allotted season, but who can be sure tha...
HIS TIME. its proper season. SET. put. THE WORLD. Hebrew. _'olam_. the ages; or the world (in relation to time). Here, put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject) for that which is inscrutable b...
_He hath made every thing beautiful in his time_ Better, as removing the ambiguity of the possessive pronoun in modern English ears, "in its time." The thinker rests for a time in the primeval faith o...
ALSO HE HATH SET THE WORLD IN THEIR HEART— _He hath even set that eternity in their hearts, without which no man can find out the design of that work which God hath done from beginning to end._ The wo...
2. Working outside the framework of God's providence results in frustration and defeat. Ecclesiastes 3:9-22 TEXT 3:9-22 9 What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? 10 I have...
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. HE HATH MADE EVERY THI...
3:11 world (b-14) i.e. 'the age;' others 'the infinite,' 'the eternal.' _ Olam_ ....
THE PRACTICAL IDEAL. ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNIVERSAL SCHEME 1-15. God is a God of order. The problem which the writer has set himself is not yet solved. He has found that wisdom, culture, pleasure, are al...
THE WORLD] rather, as RM, 'eternity.' Though man's powers are bounded, he is capable of recognising the grand and immeasurable scope of God's ordering of all things. HIS mind reflects the universe. Th...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 3 A POEM ABOUT TIME – ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8...
IN HIS TIME. — In modern English, “its.” THE WORLD. — The word here translated “world” has that meaning in post-Biblical Hebrew, but never elsewhere in the Old Testament, where it occurs over 300 time...
אֶת ־הַ כֹּ֥ל עָשָׂ֖ה יָפֶ֣ה בְ עִתֹּ֑ו
BUT ABOVE ALL, IN THE IMMORTAL CRAVINGS WHICH HE HAS QUICKENED IN THE SOUL. Ecclesiastes 3:11 Nay, going to the very root of the matter and expounding its whole philosophy, the Preacher teaches us th...
SECOND SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of Business Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20 I. IF the true Good is not to be found in the School where Wisdom utters her vo...
THE QUEST OBSTRUCTED BY DIVINE ORDINANCES. Ecclesiastes 3:1 The time of birth, for instance, and the time of death, are ordained by a Power over which men have no control; they begin to be, and they...
The vanity of life under the sun is evidenced not merely in the experience of the preacher himself, but in the wider outlook which he has been able to take. He now gives us some of the results of that...
He hath made every [thing] beautiful in its time: also he hath set the (c) world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. (c) God has given...
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? (10) I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. (11) He hath made everything beautiful in hi...
_A BEAUTIFUL WORLD_ He hath made every thing beautiful in His time.’ Ecclesiastes 3:11 I. THIS TRUTH BECOMES MORE MANIFESTLY TRUE IN THINGS IN PROPORTION AS THEIR NATURE RISES.—Everything in the w...
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...
HE HATH MADE EVERY [THING] BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME,.... That is, God has made everything; as all things in creation are made by him, for his pleasure and glory, and all well and wisely, there is a beaut...
He hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. Ver. 11. He hath made...
Ecc. 3:11. Instead of heart, it should have been translated _middle_. God hath set the world in the middle of things. God has not set us at the beginning, nor at the end of things. We see but the midd...
_He hath made every thing beautiful in his time_ This seems to be added as an apology for God's providence, notwithstanding all the contrary events and confusions which are in the world. _He hath made...
He hath made everything beautiful In his time, for the enjoyment of men during the short period of their lives, in the proper season; ALSO HE HATH SET THE WORLD IN THEIR HEART, so that they might unde...
THE DEPENDENCE OF MAN UPON THE COURSE OF NATUREV. 1. TO EVERYTHING, all that men undertake or do on earth, THERE IS A SEASON, AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE UNDER THE HEAVEN, under the government and pro...
"HE HAS MADE EVERYTHING APPROPRIATE IN ITS TIME. HE HAS ALSO SET ETERNITY IN THEIR HEART, YET SO THAT MAN WILL NOT FIND OUT THE WORK WHICH GOD HAS DONE FROM THE BEGINNING EVEN TO THE END.""Appropriate...
11-15 Every thing is as God made it; not as it appears to us. We have the world so much in our hearts, are so taken up with thoughts and cares of worldly things, that we have neither time nor spirit...
HE HATH MADE EVERY THING BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME: this seems to be added as an apology for God's providence, notwithstanding all the contrary events and confusions which are in the world. HE (i.e. _God_...
Ecclesiastes 3:11 made H6213 (H8804) beautiful H3303 time H6256 put H5414 (H8804) eternity H5769 hearts H3820
GOD HAS GIVEN MAN A CONCEPTION OF EVERLASTINGNESS. Here he provides something extra to what God has given men to do. While man has to work so hard, nevertheless God has made everything beautiful in it...
Ecclesiastes 3:11 I. This truth becomes more manifestly true in things in proportion as their nature rises. Everything in the world must be in its true place and time, or it is not beautiful. That is...
Ecclesiastes 1:12-3 Koheleth now mentions the unusual advantages which he had possessed for enjoying life and making the best of it. His opportunities could not have been greater, he considers, had h...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 I. Not only has God made everything, but there is a beauty in this arrangement where all is fortuitous to us, but all is fixed by Him. "He hath made everything beautiful in its time,...
CONTENTS: The mutability of all human affairs and the unchangeableness and unsearchableness of the divine counsels. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: We live in a world of changes. The events of...
Ecclesiastes 3:1. _To every thing there is a season._ The seasons of the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9., divides the times into twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the husbandm...
_He hath made everything beautiful in His time._ BEAUTY How rich are the traits and manifestations of man’s creative genius! Think of the vast number and diversity of gorgeous and attractive forms, w...
_What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?_ AUTUMN MUSINGS Autumn is a time which has its meaning, as well as its appropriate duties. Its deep suggestiveness is written upon the...
THE MONTH OF COLOR He hath made every thing beautiful. Ecclesiastes 3:11. One wet Saturday I went into a cottage in a country town, and there I found two little girls who were very* happy. They had...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:9 Fear God, the Sovereign One. The vanity of life causes the Preacher to reflect on what is permanent and lasting: the sovereign God of the universe....
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:11 The Preacher can see that God HAS MADE EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN ITS TIME. The problem is that God has also placed eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 3:11. IN HIS TIME.] This is the emphatic part of the sentence. The fitting time is one of the chief elements in the ways of Providence, which raises in us the thought of...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 3:1 Section 4. In confirmation of the truth that man's happiness depends upon the will of God, Koheleth proceeds to show how _Providence arranges even the minutest concerns;...
Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was mono...
Deuteronomy 32:4; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Ecclesiastes 8:17; Genesis 1:31;...
WHAT IS GOOD IN THIS LIFE Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to the second great question in the Book of Ecclesiastes. It is expressed in Chapter s 6 and 12: "Who kno...
He hath — This seems to be added as at apology for God's providence, notwithstanding all the contrary events and confusions which are in the world. He hath made (or doth make or do, by his providence...