Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ecclesiastes 3:20
One place — To the earth, out of which they were taken. All turn — All their bodies.
One place — To the earth, out of which they were taken. All turn — All their bodies.
Verse 20. _ALL GO UNTO ONE PLACE_] "Man was born To die, nor aught exceeds in this respect The vilest brute. Both transient, frail, and vain, Draw the same breath; alike grow old, decay, And then...
That great anomaly in the moral government of this world, the seemingly unequal distribution of rewards and punishments, will be rectified by God, who has future times and events under His control Ecc...
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 ...
MAN NO BETTER THAN THE BEASTS. Ecclesiastes 3:16. Both in the administration of the law and the observances of religion, wickedness is prevalent; righteousness is here equivalent to piety. Ecclesiast...
ONE PLACE: i.e. _Sheol,_ or the grave. OF THE DUST. See Genesis 1:24; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:19; Genesis 3:19. turn to dust again.
_All go unto one place_ The "place" thus spoken of is not the _Sheol_of the Hebrews or the _Hades_of the Greeks, which implied, however vaguely, some notion of a shadowy disembodied existence, for the...
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...
_ALL GO UNTO ONE PLACE; ALL ARE OF THE DUST, AND ALL TURN TO DUST AGAIN._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
M en wrest judgment; but God shall right all wrongs, though how, is beyond our ken. 16, 17. The judges of his time troubled the writer. Yet in GOD'S purposes, either here or in the future, unrighteou...
ALL ARE OF.. AGAIN] 'Nature the womb and tomb of all' (Lucretius)....
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...
הַ כֹּ֥ל הֹולֵ֖ךְ אֶל ־מָקֹ֣ום אֶחָ֑ד הַ
TO PRODUCE A MATERIALISTIC SCEPTICISM; Ecclesiastes 3:18 (c) The "speculation" in the eye of business men is not commonly of a philosophic cast, and therefore we do not look to find them arguing them...
AND BY HUMAN INJUSTICE AND PERVERSITY. Ecclesiastes 3:16; Ecclesiastes 4:1 But not only are our endeavours to find the "good" of our labours thwarted by the gracious, inflexible laws of the just God;...
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...
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. (17) I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and...
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...
ALL GO UNTO ONE PLACE,.... The earth w from whence they came; ALL ARE OF THE DUST, AND ALL TURN TO DUST AGAIN; Adam's body was made of the dust of the earth, and so all his posterity, all of them; in...
_All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again._ Ver. 20. _All are of the dust._] _See Trapp on "_ Gen 3:19 _"_...
_All go unto one place_ To the earth, as it is expressed Ecclesiastes 3:21, out of which they were both taken. _All turn to dust again_ All their bodies, as it is explained Ecclesiastes 12:7. _Who kno...
All go unto one place, to the realm of death; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again, Genesis 3:19....
THE NATURE OF HUMAN HAPPINESS...
"ALL GO TO THE SAME PLACE. ALL CAME FROM DUST AND ALL RETURN TO THE DUST." The same place isn't the afterlife (Ecclesiastes 12:7), but rather the grave or the soil. The bodies of animals and man both...
16-22 Without the fear of the Lord, man is but vanity; set that aside, and judges will not use their power well. And there is another Judge that stands before the door. With God there is a time for t...
ALL GO UNTO ONE PLACE; to the earth, as it is expressed, ECCLESIASTES 3:21, out of which they were both taken. ALL TURN TO DUST AGAIN; which is meant only of their bodies, as it is explained, ECCLESIA...
Ecclesiastes 3:20 go H1980 (H8802) one H259 place H4725 dust H6083 return H7725 (H8804) dust H6083...
DEATH IS THE GREAT LEVELLER (ECCLESIASTES 3:18). Now we discover the conflict taking place within him. He has had a concept of everlastingness and of the necessity for future judgement. How then does...
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 3:19 Has man, then, no real pre-eminence over the beast? Apparently, if we grant the assumption of the Epicurean, this is the conclusion to which we must come. If man have merely an anim...
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...
_For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts._ MAN AND BEAST It is difficult to determine the exact object of Ecclesiastes in instituting this comparison: partly because the Hebrew is c...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 3:22. FOR WHO SHALL BRING HIM TO SEE WHAT SHALL BE AFTER HIM?] Man cannot tell what God will do in the future with all his earthly circumstances—how far, in the great fu...
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...
Daniel 12:2; Ecclesiastes 3:21; Ecclesiastes 6:6; Ecclesiastes 9:10;...
If all return to dust, how can there be a resurrection? PROBLEM: Some have argued against a physical resurrection on the grounds that the scattered fragments of decomposed corpses cannot be reassembl...