George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ecclesiastes 7:24
Me. This is a proof of having made great progress in wisdom, since the half-learned are the most presumptuous. (Calmet)
Me. This is a proof of having made great progress in wisdom, since the half-learned are the most presumptuous. (Calmet)
Verse 24. _THAT WHICH IS FAR OFF_] Though the wisdom that is essential to our salvation may be soon learned, through the teaching of the Spirit of wisdom, yet in wisdom itself there are _extents_ and...
literally, Far off is that which hath been i. e., events as they have occurred in the order of Divine Providence), and deep, deep, who can find it out?...
PART II. CHAPTER S 7-12 1. The Good Advice of the Natural Man, Discouragement and Failure CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The better things (Ecclesiastes 7:1)_ 2. The anomalies (Ecclesiastes 7:15) 3. The strength...
PROVERBS AND REFLECTIONS. After asking, What is good for man in life? (Ecclesiastes 6:12), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is advisab...
IN DISPRAISE OF WOMEN. All the foregoing maxims have been tested, yet Qoheleth has not attained wisdom (Ecclesiastes 7:23); the true inwardness of things, the ultimate reality, is beyond his efforts ...
_That which is far off and exceeding deep_ The English of the latter clause scarcely expresses the Hebrew more emphatic iteration AND DEEP DEEP. By some interpreters a like iteration is supplied in th...
B. IMPORTANT LESSONS DRAWN FROM THESE OBSERVATIONS Ecclesiastes 7:23-29 1. Practical lessons can be learned but the deeper things are unattainable. Ecclesiastes 7:23-24 TEXT 7:23-24 23 I tested all...
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? THAT WHICH IS FAR OFF ... Hengstenberg translates, 'Far off is that which is;' i:e., wisdom's aim, absolute being. Wisdom is "exceeding...
7:24 who (f-10) Or 'That which is far off and very deep, who.'...
PRACTICAL APHORISMS 1-6. Things useful to remember in life. The writer has just warned as that we cannot rely on either the present or the future. We can, however, guide ourselves in the conduct of l...
THAT WHICH IS FAR OFF] RV 'That which is is far off.' 'That which is,' viz. God's world-plan, all the phenomena of the world and of human life, can only be realised by us in fragmentary form....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 7 The Teacher does not continue to ask questions. Instead, he uses many special sent...
Rather translate, “That which is, is far off.” The phrase, “that which is,” or “hath been,” to denote the existing constitution of the universe, occurs in Ecclesiastes 1:9; Ecclesiastes 3:15. (See Ecc...
רָחֹ֖וק מַה ־שֶּׁ הָיָ֑ה וְ עָמֹ֥ק ׀ עָמֹ֖ק
THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:1, and Ecclesiastes 8:1 IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown that the C
The preacher now proceeded to the inculcation of indifference toward all the facts of life as the only attitude which is in the least likely to be satisfactory. This he did, first, by a series of maxi...
That which is far off, (r) and exceedingly deep, who can find it out? (r) Meaning wisdom....
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: (22) For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. (23) All this h...
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...
THAT WHICH IS FAR OFF,.... Or, "far off [is] that which has been" g. That which has been done by God already, in creation and providence, is out of the reach of men, is far from their understandings w...
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? Ver. 24. _That which is far of and exceeding deep._] Not the minions of the muses, _Mentemque habere queis bonam, et esse corculis datu...
_All this have I proved_ All these things, of which I have here discoursed, I have diligently examined and found to be true; _by wisdom_ By the help of that singular wisdom which God had given me. _I...
That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out? True wisdom, as contained in the Word of God and flowing out of the fear of God, is not a matter of mere human comprehension....
A SPIRIT OF SORROW OVER SIN AND ITS ALLUREMENTS...
"WHAT HAS BEEN IS REMOTE AND EXCEEDINGLY MYSTERIOUS. WHO CAN DISCOVER IT?" Not only is man incapable of penetrating many of the secrets of the distant past (look how far off track some scientists are...
23-29 Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things, had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape;...
No human wit can attain to perfect wisdom, or to the exact knowledge of God's counsels and-works, and the reasons of them, because they are unsearchably deep, and far above our sight; some of them bei...
Ecclesiastes 7:24 off H7350 deep H6013 out H4672 (H8799) Deuteronomy 30:11-14;...
HIS SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING RESULTING FROM HIS WISDOM HAS MADE HIM AWARE OF MAN'S SINFULNESS AND FOLLY (ECCLESIASTES 7:23). Ecclesiastes 7:23 ‘All this I have tested out in wisdom. I said, “I will b...
CHAPTER 7 IT IS GOOD TO BE AWARE OF DEATH, TO LISTEN TO REBUKE, TO BEHAVE WISELY, EVEN THOUGH LIFE IS UNFAIR. BUT THE WORLD IS FULL OF WICKEDNESS. The emphasis of the book from now on includes the tho...
Ecclesiastes 7:19-8 Koheleth seems to have had a suspicion all the time that his view of life was a low one. He intimates that he had tried for a better, but failed to reach it: "I said, I will be wis...
Ecclesiastes 7 and ECCLESIASTES 8:1 I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities He has given us and the opp...
CONTENTS: Prudence recommended as a means of avoiding much of the vanity and vexation of the world. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The best way to save ourselves from the vexation which the v...
Ecclesiastes 7:1. _A good name is better than precious ointment._ Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48. Wisdom and virtue outlive t...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:27. COUNTING ONE BY ONE, TO FIND OUT THE ACCOUNT] Collecting the results of many observations—thus forming an opinion carefully and slowly. ECCLESIASTES 7:29. MANY INV...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 7:1 Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED EXPERIENCES IN THE
Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again, it is important that we make note of the fact that the book o...
1 Timothy 6:16; Deuteronomy 30:11; Isaiah 55:8; Isaiah 55:9; Job 11:7
It — God's counsels and works, and the reasons of them....