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Verse 18. _THAT THEY MIGHT SEE THAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE BEASTS._] The
author of _Choheleth_ has given a correct view of this difficult
verse, by a proper translation: "I said in my heart, reflecting o...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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GOD. Compare Ecclesiastes 3:11, and note on Ecclesiastes 1:11.
GOD MIGHT MANIFEST THEM. God hath chosen them to show them that even
they are beasts.
BEASTS. living creatures. As opposed to man. mamma...
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_I said in mine heart_ The word "estate" expresses fairly the meaning
of the Hebrew noun, which may be rendered "word," "matter," or
"subject." In the next clause for "that God might manifest them," w...
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THAT GOD MIGHT MANIFEST, &C.— _That I should assert God, and see
that they themselves are beasts._ Desvoeux....
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2. Working outside the framework of God's providence results in
frustration and defeat. Ecclesiastes 3:9-22
TEXT 3:9-22
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What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?
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I have...
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I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that
God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves
are beasts. I SAID IN MINE HEART. The use of the same formula...
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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...
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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...
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MANIFEST] RV 'prove,' i.e. sift or test whether they will be upright,
in spite of the knowledge that death comes to them no less than to the
beasts. BEASTS] RV 'but as beasts.'...
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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...
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אָמַ֤רְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ בְּ לִבִּ֔י עַל
־דִּבְרַת֙...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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I said in my heart concerning the state of the sons of men, that God
might (h) tempt them, and that they might see that they themselves are
beasts.
(h) And made them pure in their first creation....
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_Beasts. Another doubt; or suggestion of infidels. (St. Gregory, Dial.
iv. 4.)_...
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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...
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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...
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I SAID IN MINE HEART CONCERNING THE ESTATE OF THE SONS OF MEN,.... He
thought of the condition of the children of men, their sinful and
polluted state; he weighed and considered in his mind their acti...
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_I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that
God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves
are beasts._
Ver. 18. _That they might see that they themsel...
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_I said in my heart_, &c. And I further considered concerning their
condition in this present world. _That God might manifest them_ God
suffers these disorders among men, that he might discover men to...
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THE NATURE OF HUMAN HAPPINESS...
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I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, fallen
mankind in general, THAT GOD MIGHT MANIFEST THEM, that is, sift, test,
prove them, AND THAT THEY MIGHT SEE THAT THEY THEMSELVES AR...
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THAT GOD MIGHT MANIFEST THEM:
Or, that they might clear God, and see, etc....
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"I SAID TO MYSELF CONCERNING THE SONS OF MEN, 'GOD HAS SURELY TESTED
THEM IN ORDER FOR THEM TO SEE THAT THEY ARE BUT BEASTS.'"TESTED THEM"
-or bring to light, expose. "Time" gives people the chance to...
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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...
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I SAID IN MY HEART; and further I considered with myself. CONCERNING
THE ESTATE OF THE SONS OF MEN; concerning their condition and
deportment in this present world. THAT GOD MIGHT MANIFEST THEM; God
s...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:18 THE CHILDREN OF MAN... ARE
BUT BEASTS in the sense that both human beings and animals die.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 3:18. THAT GOD MIGHT MANIFEST THEM.] The disorders of the
present are permitted to the end that God might test, or prove, men.
_That they themselves are beasts_. Not in r...
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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;...
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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...
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1 Peter 1:24; 2 Peter 2:12; Genesis 3:17; Hebrews 9:27; Job 14:1;...
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I said — And further I considered concerning their condition in this
present world. That God — God suffers these disorders among men,
that he might discover men to themselves, and shew what strange
cr...