Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, Deuteronomy 23:22, not make rash promises supported by an obligation before the Lord, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay, provided the vow is in agreement with the great precepts of God's Word, especially the command of love.
Verse Ecclesiastes 5:5. _BETTER_ IS IT _THAT THOU SHOULDEST NOT VOW, C._] We are under _constant obligations_ to live to God no _vow_ can make it more so. Yet, there may be cases in which we should b...
3. EXHORTATIONS ON DIFFERENT VANITIES CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Concerning worship and vows (Ecclesiastes 5:1)_ 2. Concerning extortions (Ecclesiastes 5:8) 3. The vanities of wealth (Eccle
REALITY IN RELIGION. This section deals with worship and vows. Those who go to the house of God (whether Temple or synagogue is not clear) must go reverently and thoughtfully. Keep thy foot recalls th...
BETTER. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:24....
_Better is it that thou shouldest not vow_ The point which the Teacher seeks to press is obviously the optional character of vows. They form no part of the essentials of religion, they are to be depre...
DISCOURSE: 832 DUTY OF PAYING OUR VOWS Ecclesiastes 5:4, _When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou hast rowed. Better is it that tho...
D. GUIDELINES FOR THE WORK OF WORSHIP Ecclesiastes 5:1-9 1. Watch your step in God's house. Ecclesiastes 5:1 a TEXT 5:1a Ecclesiastes 5:1 a Guard your steps as you go to the house of God, THO
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. (; .)...
DISHEARTENING OUTLOOK ON LIFE 1-8. Disorders in the religious, in the political world. In the earlier part of this chapter the writer turns from secular to religious matters. H e points out the irrev...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 5 BE AFRAID TO MAKE GOD ANGRY – ECCLESIASTES 5:1-7 V1 Be careful when you go to God...
_[Ecclesiastes 5:4]_ טֹ֖וב אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא ־תִדֹּ֑ר מִ...
SO ALSO A HAPPIER AND MORE EFFECTIVE METHOD OF WORSHIP IS OPEN TO MEN; Ecclesiastes 5:1 The men of affairs are led from the vocations of the Market and the intrigues of the Divan into the House of Go...
PRACTICAL MAXIMS DEDUCED FROM THIS VIEW OF THE BUSINESS LIFE. (b) A noble philosophy this, and pregnant with practical counsels of great value. For if, as we close our study of this Section of the Bo...
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 observation of the religious life brings no truer satisfaction. In this brief passage contempt for religion is not expressed, but there is absolutely no joy or satisfaction manifest. The life is w...
Sin by making a vow, above thy strength, (Chaldean; Pineda) or by speaking what may excite the passions. (Thaumat.; Bossuet) --- Angel guardian assigned to each one, (Worthington) or the priest, who t...
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. (4) When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay...
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...
BETTER [IS IT] THAT THOU SHOULDEST NOT VOW,.... For a vow is an arbitrary thing; a man is not bound to make it, and while he vows not, it is in his own power, and at his option, whether he will do thi...
Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Ver. 5. _Better it is that thou shouldest not vow,_] _q.d., _ Who bade thee be so forward? Why wouldst thou becom...
"IT IS BETTER THAT YOU SHOULD NOT VOW THAN THAT YOU SHOULD VOW AND NOT PAY." Vows weren't mandatory in the Old Testament (Deut. Ecclesiastes 23:22), but once made they were binding. Before you promise...
4-8 When a person made engagements rashly, he suffered his mouth to cause his flesh to sin. The case supposes a man coming to the priest, and pretending that his vow was made rashly, and that it woul...
THAT THOU SHOULDEST NOT VOW; for this was no sin, because men are free to make such vows, or not to make them, as they think fit. See NUMBERS 30:3, &c.; DEUTERONOMY 23:22 ACTS 5:4. But having vowed we...
Ecclesiastes 5:5 Better H2896 vow H5087 (H8799) vow H5087 (H8799) pay H7999 (H8762)...
CHAPTER 5 TRUE RELIGION AND WORSHIP. THE PROBLEM OF RICHES. THE GOOD LIFE. The Importance of True Worship (Ecclesiastes 5:1). This chapter now begins with one of those periods in The Preacher's musin...
Ecclesiastes 4:1 I. In the fourth chapter Koheleth comes to the conclusion that life is essentially and irretrievably wretched wretched not because (as he had formerly thought) it would so soon be ove...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws which we had no voice in making; that we often lie at th...
CONTENTS: Warnings against a vain religion. The vanity and vexation attending the possession of wealth. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: We should address ourselves to the worship of God with a...
Ecclesiastes 5:1. _Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God._ Avoid wandering thoughts, and be wholly absorbed in devotion. Do not hear the words of prayer only, but desire the blessings soug...
_When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it._ OF REMEMBERING AND KEEPING OUR VOWS One of the greatest inconveniences to which men are exposed in the various transactions of life, one of the...
_Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God._ REVERENCE AND FIDELITY This passage is a series of cautions against irreverence and insincerity in worship, against discouragement because of pol...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:1 Fear God, the Holy and Righteous One. In this section, the encouragement to “fear God” is motivated by his holy and righteous character (compare note on...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 5:6. BEFORE THE ANGEL] The representative of God in the Temple, _i.e_., the priest. Or it may be taken literally, as expressing the early belief of mankind that angels ar...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 5:1 Section 6. Man's outward and secular life being unable to secure happiness and satisfaction, can these be found in _popular religion?_ Religious exercises need the observa...
Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they do not consider the evil that they do (Ecclesiastes 5:1). When you go into the...
Acts 5:4; Deuteronomy 23:22; Proverbs 20:25...