Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time to love; when God will stir up the affection of love, or give occasion for the exercise or discovery of it to others.
A time to love; when God will stir up the affection of love, or give occasion for the exercise or discovery of it to others.
Verse Ecclesiastes 3:8. _A TIME TO LOVE, - HATE, - OF WAR, - OF PEACE._] "_Love_ turns to _hatred_; interest or caprice _Dissolves_ the firmest knot by _friendship_ tied. O'er rival _nations_, with...
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...
TO LOVE. Jeremiah 2:2.Ezekiel 16:8; Daniel 1:9; Galatians 1:5; Galatia
_A time to love, and a time, to hate_ Greek thought again supplies us with a parallel, ἡμεῖς δὲ πῶς οὐ γνωσόμεσθα σωφρονεῖν ; ἐγὼ δʼ, ἐπίσταμαι γὰρ ἀρτίως ὅτι ὅ τʼ ἐχθρὸς ἡμῖν ἐς τοσόνδʼ ἐχθαρτέος,...
A TIME TO LOVE, &C.— The _third proof_ the proposition laid down in the beginning, and comprised in Ecclesiastes 3:1 is taken from the endless vicissitude of things in this world, and especially of th...
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...
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. A TIME TO HATE - e.g., sin, lusts, any person or thing that comes between us and God (); i:e., to love God so much more, as t...
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...
עֵ֤ת לֶֽ אֱהֹב֙ וְ עֵ֣ת לִ שְׂנֹ֔א
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 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...
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...
A TIME TO LOVE, AND A TIME TO HATE,.... For one to love his friend, and to hate a man, a sinner, as the Targum; to love a friend while he continues such, and hate him, or less love him, when he proves...
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. Ver. 8. _A time to love, and a time to hate._] Yet I like not his counsel that said, _Ama tanquam osurus, odi tanquam amaturus,...
_A time to die_ And as there _is a time to die_, so there is a time to rise again, a set time, when they that lie in the grave shall be remembered. _A time to kill_ When men die a violent death. _A ti...
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...
a time to love, this being the summary of the Law, AND A TIME TO HATE; A TIME OF WAR, when men think it necessary to shed blood in such a manner, AND A TIME OF PEACE. All these activities are carried...
"A TIME TO LOVE, AND. TIME TO HATE;" There are things to love and there are times to hate, especially evil (Psalms 119:104; Prov. Ecclesiastes 6:16; Ecclesiastes 8:13;...
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 3:8 time H6256 love H157 (H8800) time H6256 hate H8130 (H8800) time H6256 war H4421 time...
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. ⇐
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:8 A TIME TO HATE. Righteous anger is legitimate under the appropriate circumstances. ⇐...
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...
1 Kings 5:4; 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 Chronicles 20:1; 2 Chronicles 20:30;...
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...
To love — When God stirs up love, or gives occasion for the exercise of it....