Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Ecclesiastes 2:1-26
Epicureanism and Wisdom alike Profitless
1-3. The writer makes enjoyment his quest, while aware that it is folly, and avoiding excess in a philosophic spirit.
Epicureanism and Wisdom alike Profitless
1-3. The writer makes enjoyment his quest, while aware that it is folly, and avoiding excess in a philosophic spirit.
CHAPTER II _The vanity of human courses in the works of pleasure,_ _planting, equipage, amassing wealth, c._, 1-11. _Wisdom preferable to folly_, 12-14 _yet little difference between the wise and...
Solomon’s trial of God’s second gift, namely, riches, and the enjoyment which riches supply; this brought him to the sane result (compare Ecclesiastes 1:12). Comparing Solomon’s action with Luke 12:16...
CHAPTER 2THE RESULTS OF THE SEARCH AND DIFFERENT VANITIES _ 1. His personal experience (Ecclesiastes 2:1)_ 2. Various vanities and a conclusion (Ecclesiastes 2:12) Ecclesiastes 2:1
ECCLESIASTES 1:12 TO ECCLESIASTES 2:26. QOHELETH'S INVESTIGATIONS. Assuming the character of Solomon the writer tells of his search for happiness under many forms. The pursuit of wisdom (Ecclesiastes...
ECCLESIASTES 1:12 TO ECCLESIASTES 2:26. QOHELETH'S INVESTIGATIONS. Assuming the character of Solomon the writer tells of his search for happiness under many forms. The pursuit of wisdom (Ecclesiastes...
ENJOY. look thou into. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._...
_I will prove thee with mirth_ The self-communing of the man talking to his soul, like the rich man in Luke 12:18-19, in search of happiness, leads him to yet another experiment. He will lay aside phi...
_THE VANITY OF SELF-INDULGENCE -- ECCLESIASTES 2:1-11:_ All through the book of Ecclesiastes we observe Solomon as he thought and reasoned within himself. He had looked upon and tried all the good, pl...
c. Wisdom is used in the exploration of sensuous pleasure. Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 TEXT 2:1-11 1 I said to myself, Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself. And behold, it too was fut...
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. I SAID IN MINE HEART. "I" (Heb., ani) is emphatic: I who had such ample op...
2:1 enjoy (d-15) Lit. 'see.' so ver. 24; chs. 3.13; 6.6, &c...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 2 THE TEST TO DISCOVER WHAT MAKES A PERSON HAPPY – ECCLESIASTES 2:1-11...
IN MINE HEART. — To mine heart (Luke 12:19; Psalms 42:11). GO TO NOW. — Numbers 22:6; Judges 19:11. ENJOY. — Heb., see....
אָמַ֤רְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ בְּ לִבִּ֔י לְכָה ־נָּ֛א...
FIRST SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wisdom And In Pleasure Ecclesiastes 1:12; Ecclesiastes 2:1 OPPRESSED by his profound sense of the vanity of the life which man lives amid the play of pe...
24-26, VAIN UNDERTAKINGS Ecclesiastes 2:1-17 At the beginning of his search for happiness Solomon erected a splendid home and planned all kinds of delights of an artistic and sensuous nature. There w...
Turning from the pursuit of knowledge to the pathway of pleasure, the king had given himself up to mirth, seeking the false stimulus of wine. In this also he had been disappointed, finding that mirth...
I said in my heart, Come now, I will tempt (a) thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity. (a) Solomon makes this discourse with himself, as though he would try whe...
_Delights. He speaks in the name of libertines, (St. Gregory, Dial. iv. 4.) or after his conversion. (Calmet) --- The worldling might object that since wisdom affords not content, it is best to try pl...
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. (2) I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? (3) I sought...
CONTENTS In this Chapter the Preacher prosecutes still further the doctrine of the emptiness of creatures, to give happiness. Having in the former Chapter stated the subject in general, he here enter...
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...
I SAID IN MINE HEART,.... He communed with his heart, he thought and reasoned within himself, and came to this resolution in his own mind; that since he could not find happiness in natural wisdom and...
_I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity._ Ver. 1. _Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth._] The merry Greeks of...
_I said in my heart_ Being disappointed of my hopes from knowledge, I resolved to try another course. _Go to now_ O my soul! I will try whether I cannot make thee happy by the enjoyment of sensual del...
Solomon's own Example...
I said in mine heart, in considering carefully the possibility of enjoyment, GO TO, NOW, I WILL PROVE THEE WITH MIRTH, to find out whether he would feel happy and contented in enjoyment of the senses;...
"I SAID TO MYSELF, 'COME NOW,. WILL TEST YOU WITH PLEASURE. SO ENJOY YOURSELF.' AND BEHOLD, IT TOO WAS FUTILITY."I SAID TO MYSELF" -like the rich man in Luke 12:19. This type of statement reveals some...
1-11 Solomon soon found mirth and pleasure to be vanity. What does noisy, flashy mirth towards making a man happy? The manifold devices of men's hearts, to get satisfaction from the world, and their...
ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 2 Pleasure and mirth also vanity, ECCLESIASTES 2:1,2; whether in wine, or buildings and gardens, or servants, or cattle, or silver and gold, or music, ECCLESIASTES 2:3. This the P...
Ecclesiastes 2:1 said H559 (H8804) heart H3820 Come H3212 (H8798) test H5254 (H8762) mirth H8057 enjoy...
CHAPTER 2 THE SEARCH FOR PLEASURE. Experimenting With Good Things (Ecclesiastes 2:1). Ecclesiastes 2:1 ‘I said in my heart, “Go at it now, I will test out merriment. Therefore enjoy pleasure (or ‘g...
Ecclesiastes 1:12-2 I. As was natural in so wise a man, the Preacher turns first to wisdom. It is the wisdom that is born of wide and varied experience, not of abstract study. He acquaints himself wit...
CONTENTS: Solomon shows that there is no true happiness and satisfaction to be had in mirth, pleasure and the delights of sense. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: True and lasting happiness and...
Ecclesiastes 2:1. _Enjoy pleasure._ The first doctrine of Epicurus, whose system is here rebutted. Acts 17:18. Ecclesiastes 2:2. _I said of laughter,_ of all forced and frantic joy, _it is mad._ Chald...
_Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth._ THE THREEFOLD VIEW OF HUMAN LIFE Three views of human life are given in this remarkable chapter. I. The theatrical view of life (Ecclesiastes 2:1). The wri...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 2:1 PLEASURE here apparently refers to activities that can cause LAUGHTER....
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 2:1. I SAID IN MINE HEART.] The pronoun is emphatic and denotes the importance of the person who is speaking. There are instances of such addresses to the soul in the Psa...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 2:1 Section 2. _Vanity of striving after pleasure and wealth._ ECCLESIASTES 2:1 Dissatisfied with the result of the pursuit of wisdom, Koheleth embarks on a course of sensua...
So I said in my heart, Go to now, I'm going to prove thee with [pleasure,] with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: but, behold, this was vanity (Ecclesiastes 2:1). So we read in the New Testament the ep...
2 Kings 5:5; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ecclesiastes 8:15; Ecclesiastes 1:16;...
I said — Being disappointed of my hopes from knowledge, I resolved to try another course. Go to — O my soul! I will try whether I cannot make thee happy, by the enjoyment of sensual delights. Vanity —...