Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a portion, etc.] be not niggardly or calculating in the bestowal of favours. You know not when you may need them yourself.
Give a portion, etc.] be not niggardly or calculating in the bestowal of favours. You know not when you may need them yourself.
Verse Ecclesiastes 11:2. _GIVE A PORTION TO SEVEN_] Never cease giving while thou seest a person in distress, and hast wherewithal to relieve him. _THOU KNOWEST NOT WHAT EVIL_] Such may be the change...
The verse means: “Let your hospitality and your alms be extensive: for you know not what reverses may befall either that person who by your liberality will be strengthened to meet them, or yourself wh...
CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Proverbs concerning man's work(Ecclesiastes 11:1)_ 2. The vanity of life (Ecclesiastes 11:7) Ecclesiastes 11:1. These continued proverbs concern the work of m
ECCLESIASTES 11:1 TO ECCLESIASTES 12:8. CLOSING COUNSELS. It is well to do and to get all one can, in the way of industry and pleasure, before old age draws on. Ecclesiastes 11:1 and...
GIVE: i.e. in charity. A PORTION: i.e.. portion of the bread of Ecclesiastes 11:1. SEVEN... EIGHT. An idiomatic phrase denoting several or many, like the idiom "once... twice". several times (Job 33:...
_Give a portion to seven, and also to eight_ The precept is clearly a pendant to Ecclesiastes 11:1 and has received the same variety of interpretations. Following the same line of thought as before, w...
F. EXHORTATIONS TO WORK IN HARMONY WITH Wisdom 11:112:8 1. Trust God and be cheerful in all of your activities. Ecclesiastes 11:1-8 TEXT 11:1-8 1 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for...
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. PORTION - of thy bread. TO SEVEN - the perfect number. TO EIGHT - even to more than seven; i:...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 11 THE KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN BEINGS HAS LIMITS – ECCLESIASTES 11:1-6 V1 Throw your bre...
TO SEVEN, AND ALSO TO EIGHT. — Quite similar forms of expression occur in Job 5:19; Proverbs 30:21; Amos 1:3; Micah 5:4. The numbers seven and eight are used indefinitel
תֶּן ־חֵ֥לֶק לְ שִׁבְעָ֖ה וְ גַ֣ם לִ
BUT IN A WISE USE AND A WISE ENJOYMENT OF THE PRESENT LIFE, Ecclesiastes 11:1 What that Good is, and where it may be found, the Preacher now proceeds to show. But, as his manner is, he does not say i...
FOURTH SECTION The Quest Achieved. The Chief Good Is To Be Found, Not In Wisdom, Nor In Pleasure, Nor In Devotion To Affairs And Its Rewards; But In A Wise Use And A Wise Enjoyment Of The Present Li...
LIVE NOT FOR TODAY ALONE Ecclesiastes 11:1-10 The casting of bread upon the waters is an allusion to the oriental custom of casting rice-grains on the fields, when they lie submerged beneath the annu...
The method of worldly wisdom is not that of discretion only; it is, moreover, that of diligence, and this passage urges such diligence. Again, we have taken more than one text out of this passage to p...
_Eight. To as many as thou art able, (Calmet) especially to those who are of the household of faith, (Galatians vi. 10.; Haydock) whether under the old or the new Testament, signified by the numbers,...
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. (2) Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. The opening of this Chap...
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...
GIVE A PORTION TO SEVEN, AND ALSO TO EIGHT,.... Or, a "part" q; not the whole of a man's substance, for he must have to support himself and his family; he that does not take care of that is worse than...
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. Ver. 2. _Give a portion to seven, and also to eight._] A portion - _i.e., _ a good deal, a fair pro...
_Give a portion to seven_ A part of thy estate or provisions. He alludes to the ancient custom, whereby the master of the feast distributed several parts to each guest, and withal sent portions to the...
PRACTICING BENEVOLENCE...
Give a portion to seven and also to eight, ready to dispense charity to many; FOR THOU KNOWEST NOT WHAT EVIL SHALL BE UPON THE EARTH, when the tables may be turned by some misfortune, and the giver hi...
"DIVIDE YOUR PORTION TO SEVEN, OR EVEN TO EIGHT, FOR YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT MISFORTUNE MAY OCCUR ON THE EARTH."DIVIDE YOUR PORTION TO SEVEN" -The idea may be of unlimited benevolence, i.e. give to many...
1-6 Solomon presses the rich to do good to others. Give freely, though it may seem thrown away and lost. Give to many. Excuse not thyself with the good thou hast done, from the good thou hast further...
GIVE A PORTION; a part of thy estate or provisions. He alludes to the ancient custom, whereby the master of the feast did distribute several parts to each guest, and withal sent portions to the poor;...
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CHAPTER ECCLESIASTES 11:1 ADVICE FROM THE WISE MAN TO THE WISE. Central to these verses is the recognition of our ignorance. We do not know what will happen when we do things, we do not know what God...
CHAPTER S ECCLESIASTES 11:9 TO ECCLESIASTES 12:14 THE VENTURING OF THE YOUNG, THE TRIALS OF THE OLD AND MAN'S FINAL DESTINY. As we come to the end of the writer's musings we are rewarded with the fina...
Ecclesiastes 8:16-12 I. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his position and equipment as he starts on his last course. (1) His first conclusion is that wisdom, which of all temp...
Ecclesiastes 11:1. _Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days._ Hoard not thy bread; for if thou dost, it will mildew, it will be of no use to thee. Cast it on the waters...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to works of charity and right living. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: Since we have death and judgment to prepare for, we should do good to others and abound in liberalit...
Ecclesiastes 11:1. _Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days._ The root לחם _lechem,_ designates bread, corn, and all kinds of meat which sustain life. It refers also to...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 11:2 It is wise to have many ways to make a living and invest resources. ⇐ ⇔
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 11:1. CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS.] “Bread,” rendered in Isaiah 28:28, “bread corn.” It has been supposed that there is an allusion to the manner of sowing the seed-co...
EXPOSITION Approaching the end of his treatise, Koheleth, in view of apparent anomalies in God's moral government, and the difficulties that meet man in his social and political relations, proceeds t...
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you don't know what evil shall be upon the eaRuth (Ecclesiastes 11:1-2). You do...
1 Timothy 6:18; 1 Timothy 6:19; Acts 11:28; Daniel 4:27; Ephesians
Give — A part of thy estate or provisions. He alludes to the ancient custom, whereby the master of the feast distributed several parts to each guest, and withal sent portions to the poor. To eight — T...