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 providence of God:
CHAPTER III _Every thing has its time and season_, 1-8. _Men are exercised with labour_, 9, 10. _Every thing is beautiful in its season_, 11. _Men should enjoy thankfully the gifts of God_, 12, 13...
EVERYTHING - More particularly, the actions of people (e. g. his own, Ecclesiastes 2:1) and events which happen to people, the world of Providence rather than the world of creation. It would seem that...
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...
A SEASON. an appointed time. Hebrew. _zrman._ Compare Ezra 10:14.Nehemiah 2:6; Esther 9:27. A word is not necessarily. "later" word, because there has not been occasion for it to be used, or needed be...
_To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose_ The two Hebrew nouns stand to each other in much the same relation as the Greek χρόνος and καιρός, the former expressing a period of dur...
TO EVERY THING THERE IS A SEASON— _There is a fixed season for every thing; nay, all the determinations of man's will under heaven have their proper time._ Solomon says of all things in general, that...
B. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THAT WE WORK UNDER THE RULE OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 1. Man should adjust to live his life within the framework of God's providence. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 TEXT 3:1-8...
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: TO EVERY THING ... A SEASON - Heb., zªmaan (H2165)2165 determined time. Man has his appointed cycle of seasons and v...
3:1 purpose (g-12) Lit. 'pleasure,' 'occupation.'...
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 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...
A SEASON. — The word is only found in later Hebrew (Nehemiah 2:6; Esther 9:27; Esther 9:31), and in the Chaldee of Daniel and Ezra. PURPOSE. — The use of the word here and in...
לַ † כֹּ֖ל זְמָ֑ן וְ עֵ֥ת לְ...
AND THE CONVICTION THAT IT IS OPPOSED TO THE WILL OF GOD AS EXPRESSED IN THE ORDINANCES OF HIS PROVIDENCE, Ecclesiastes 3:1 This is one help to a wise content with our lot; but he has many more at ou...
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...
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 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...
To every [thing there is] a (a) season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: (a) He speaks of this diversity of time for two causes first to declare that there is nothing in this world perpe...
_Heaven, in this world, where alone things change. (St. Jerome) --- Nothing is here perpetual, but to be used in a proper manner. (Worthington) --- The heart must not be attached to any thing created....
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: (2) A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; (3) A time to ki...
CONTENTS Under several very interesting representations, the Preacher continues in this Chapter to follow up the same subject, as in the former. The mutability of all things here below, is strikingly...
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...
TO EVERY [THING THERE IS] A SEASON,.... A set determined time, when everything shall come into being, how long it shall continue, and in what circumstances; all things that have been, are, or shall be...
To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ver. 1. _To everything there is a season._] A set time, such as we can neither alter nor order. This is one of those...
_To every thing_, &c. Solomon having mentioned God's overruling providence in the latter end of the foregoing chapter, proceeds in this to illustrate the imperfection of human wisdom, which is confine...
TO BE BORN: _ Heb._ to bear...
“THERE IS AN APPOINTED TIME FOR EVERYTHING. AND THERE IS. TIME FOR EVERY EVENT UNDER HEAVEN” “appointed time” -a fixed, definite portion of time, esp.,. stated time. “This verse is not intended to sug...
1-10 To expect unchanging happiness in a changing world, must end in disappointment. To bring ourselves to our state in life, is our duty and wisdom in this world. God's whole plan for the government...
ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 3 Every thing hath its time; in which, to enjoy it, and therewith do good to others, is our good, ECCLESIASTES 3:1. God doth all according to his decree that we should fear him, a...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 season H2165 time H6256 purpose H2656 heaven H8064 every thing - Ecclesiastes 3:17,...
THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE (ECCLESIASTES 3:1). Ecclesiastes 3:1 ‘To everything there is a fixed season, and a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to d...
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...
_To everything there is a season._ TIMES AND SEASONS IN THE CHURCH The principle which Solomon asserts, and which is of extreme importance in all matters connected with our practical life in this wor...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:1 Poem: A Time for Everything. There is an appropriate occasion for every human event or activity. ⇐
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 3:1. SEASON-TIME.] Season signifies a certain period or term; time denotes a division of time in general. ECCLESIASTES 3:2. A TIME TO PLANT, &C.] Used in O. T. as a met...
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...
2 Chronicles 33:12; 2 Kings 5:26; Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 2:17;...
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...
A season — A certain time appointed by God for its being and continuance, which no human wit or providence can alter. And by virtue of this appointment of God, all vicissitudes which happen in the wor...