Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ecclesiastes 4:9
Two — Who live together in any kind of society. Because — Both have great benefit by such conjunction, whereby they support, encourage, and strengthen one another.
Two — Who live together in any kind of society. Because — Both have great benefit by such conjunction, whereby they support, encourage, and strengthen one another.
Verse Ecclesiastes 4:9. _TWO_ ARE _BETTER THAN ONE_] Married life is infinitely to be preferred to this kind of life, for the very reasons alleged below, and which require no explanation....
The spectacle of a prosperous man whose condition is rendered vain by his brotherless, childless isolation. Ecclesiastes 4:8 A SECOND - Any one associated or connected with him. Ecclesiastes 4:9...
CHAPTER 4 OBSERVATIONS OF DIFFERENT WRONGS _ 1. Concerning oppressions (Ecclesiastes 4:1)_ 2. Concerning envy of fools and the rich (Ecclesiastes 4:4) 3. Concerning the miser (Ecclesiast
ECCLESIASTES 4. A GLOOMY SURVEY. The chapter falls into four parts, which treat respectively of oppression (Ecclesiastes 4:1), rivalry (Ecclesiastes 4:4), isolation amounting to self-torture (Ecclesia...
_Two are better than one_ The strain of moralising which follows indicates at least the revived capacity for a better feeling. As the DEBATER had turned from the restless strivings of the seeker after...
BECAUSE THEY HAVE A GOOD REWARD— _Because they have a better reward for their common labour._...
3. Attain your riches for practical good. Ecclesiastes 4:7-12 TEXT 4:7-12 7 Then I looked again at vanity under the sun. 8 There was a certain man without a dependent, having neither a son nor a b...
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. TWO (ARE) BETTER THAN ONE. Two-opposed to "one" (). Ties of union, marriage, friendship, religious communion, are better...
TWO more ills of life are covetousness aria loneliness....
VICISSITUDES OF LIFE. 'OH, THE PITY OF IT!' 1-3. The mass of human suffering and the absence of pity are such that better off are the dead and still more the unborn. It is not only through God's ord...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 4 This chapter contains several subjects. 1. PEOPLE WHO SUFFER – ECCLESIASTES 4:1-...
טֹובִ֥ים הַ שְּׁנַ֖יִם מִן ־הָ אֶחָ֑ד אֲשֶׁ֧ר
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...
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...
YET THESE ARE CAPABLE OF A NOBLER MOTIVE AND MODE. Ecclesiastes 4:9 Now a jealous rivalry culminating in mere avarice, -that surely is not the wisest or noblest spirit of which those are capable who...
From this general survey the preacher returned to examine the condition of the beings whom he had described as being no better than the beasts. He looked out upon them, and saw them in suffering, and...
(f) Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. (f) As when man is alone, he can neither help himself nor others, he shows that men should live in mutual society to t...
_Therefore is not in Hebrew, &c. The miser had better have some society. It is advantageous; though to refrain from its comforts, out of piety, is not blamed. The solitary must be "an angel or a devil...
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. (10) For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another...
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...
TWO [ARE] BETTER THAN ONE,.... The wise man takes occasion, from the solitariness Of the covetous man before described, to show in this and some following verses the preferableness and advantages of s...
_Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour._ Ver. 9. _Two are better than one._] Friendly society is far beyond that wretched "aloneness" of the covetous wretch; Ecc...
_Two_ Or more, who live together in any kind of society, and join their powers together in pursuit of any important object; _are better than one_ Act more cheerfully, and accomplish their designs more...
Two are better than one, for friendship, marriage, association in religious communion will tend to oppose selfishness; BECAUSE THEY HAVE A GOOD REWARD FOR THEIR LABOR, the advantage resulting from suc...
EVILS OF SOCIAL AND CIVIL LIFE...
"TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE BECAUSE THEY HAVE. GOOD RETURN FOR THEIR LABOR."BETTER" -There is something 'better' then the poverty of the loner. All too often friendships and real companionship, and. good...
9-12 Surely he has more satisfaction in life, who labours hard to maintain those he loves, than the miser has in his toil. In all things union tends to success and safety, but above all, the union of...
TWO, who live together in any kind of society, and join their powers together in any enterprises; which he opposeth to that humour of the covetous man, who desired to live alone, as was now said. A GO...
Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two H8147 better H2896 one H259 have H3426 good H2896 reward H7939 labor H5999 are -...
CHAPTER 4 THE DREADFULNESS OF OPPRESSION. GUIDANCE ON LIVING. This chapter begins with considering the dreadfulness of oppression and then continues with thoughts on living, giving both good and bad...
SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE (ECCLESIASTES 4:4). Having all to briefly considered the oppression that was in the world, which has left him feeling that it was better if they had never been born, he no...
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: Discontent and impatience because of the oppressions and iniquities of life. CHARACTERS: Solomon. CONCLUSION: The world is full of trouble. By reason of man's perversity, he is ever distur...
Ecclesiastes 4:2. _Wherefore I praised the dead more than the living,_ who are robbed, fleeced, and exposed to incessant afflictions, from oppression and war. Solomon alludes to extreme cases, such as...
_Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour._ THE NECESSITY AND BENEFITS OF RELIGIOUS SOCIETY I. Prove the truth of the wise man’s assertion, that, “two are better than...
THREE'S BEST One alone. Ecclesiastes 4:8 (AV). Two are better than one. Ecclesiastes 4:9. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12. Instead of one text we are going to h
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 4:7 Some people engage in endless TOIL yet are NEVER SATISFIED even though they acquire great RICHES. On the other hand there are those who
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 4:10. IF THEY FALL.] Not both together, but if one or the other falls. ECCLESIASTES 4:12. A THREEFOLD CORD.] Two cords would only suggest plurality, but three give the...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 4:1 Section 5. Koheleth proceeds to give further illustrations of _man_'_s inability to be the architect of his own happiness_._ _There are many things which interrupt or des...
So I returned, and I considered all of the oppressions that are done under the sun: and the tears of those that are oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was...
1 Corinthians 12:18; 2 John 1:8; Acts 13:2; Acts 15:39; Acts 15:40;...