Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Ecclesiastes 7:2
The living will lay it to his heart] Oriental mourning is elaborate and prolonged. Hence there is abundant opportunity for those who take life in earnest to obtain a hearing for their counsels.
The living will lay it to his heart] Oriental mourning is elaborate and prolonged. Hence there is abundant opportunity for those who take life in earnest to obtain a hearing for their counsels.
Verse Ecclesiastes 7:2. It is _BETTER TO GO TO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING_] _Birthdays_ were generally kept with great festivity, and to these the wise man most probably refers; but according to his maxim...
THAT - Namely, what is seen in the house of mourning. LAY IT TO HIS HEART - Consider it attentively....
PART II. CHAPTER S 7-12 1. The Good Advice of the Natural Man, Discouragement and Failure CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The better things (Ecclesiastes 7:1)_ 2. The anomalies (Ecclesiastes 7:15) 3. The strength...
PROVERBS AND REFLECTIONS. After asking, What is good for man in life? (Ecclesiastes 6:12), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is advisab...
THE END. Hebrew. _soph_. See note on Ecclesiastes 3:11. MEN. Hebrew. _'addm_ (with Art.). mankind. App-14. See note on Ecclesiastes 1:13....
_It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting_ The customs of Jewish mourning must be borne in mind to appreciate the full force of the maxim. The lamentation lasti...
b. Attendance at a funeral is better than attendance at a birthday party. Ecclesiastes 7:2 TEXT 7:2 2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting, because that is the end...
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. IT IS BETTER TO GO TO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 7 The Teacher does not continue to ask questions. Instead, he uses many special sent...
Comparing this verse with Ecclesiastes 2:24, it is plain that the Preacher does not in the latter place recommend reckless enjoyment, but enjoyment tempered by the fear of God, and looking to the end....
טֹ֞וב לָ לֶ֣כֶת אֶל ־בֵּֽית ־אֵ֗בֶל מִ
THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:1, and Ecclesiastes 8:1 IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown that the C
The preacher now proceeded to the inculcation of indifference toward all the facts of life as the only attitude which is in the least likely to be satisfactory. This he did, first, by a series of maxi...
[It is] better to go to the house of (c) mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart. (c) Where we may see the hand of G...
_Name. "It is necessary for the sake of others," (St. Augustine, de B. Vid. xxii.) particularly for those who have to direct souls. (St. Gregory in Ezechial) (Calmet) --- In this second part is shewn...
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. (3) Sorrow is better than laughter: for by th...
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...
[IT IS] BETTER TO GO TO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING,.... For deceased relations or friends, who either lie unburied, or have been lately inferred; for the Jews kept their mourning for their dead several day...
Ecclesiastes 7:2 [It is] better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart. Ver. 2. _It is better...
_It is better to go to the house of mourning_ Where mourners meet together to celebrate the funerals of deceased friends; _than to the house of feasting_ Where people meet to indulge their appetites i...
It is better to go to the house of mourning, where people, lamenting for some deceased relative or friend, meditate upon the vanity of life, THAN TO GO TO THE HOUSE OF FEASTING, where banqueting and c...
CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD AND THE SPIRIT OF CALM RESIGNATION...
"IT IS BETTER TO GO TO. HOUSE OF MOURNING THAN TO GO TO. HOUSE OF FEASTING, BECAUSE THAT IS THE END OF EVERY MAN, AND THE LIVING TAKES IT TO HEART." Points To Note: 1 "there is much to be gained by s...
1-6 Reputation for piety and honesty is more desirable than all the wealth and pleasure in this world. It will do more good to go to a funeral than to a feast. We may lawfully go to both, as there is...
THE HOUSE OF MOURNING; where mourners meet together to celebrate the funerals of a deceased friend. _That_, to wit, death, the cause of that mourning, IS THE END OF ALL MEN; it brings men to the serio...
Ecclesiastes 7:2 Better H2896 go H3212 (H8800) house H1004 mourning H60 go H3212 (H8800) house H1004 feasting...
CHAPTER 7 IT IS GOOD TO BE AWARE OF DEATH, TO LISTEN TO REBUKE, TO BEHAVE WISELY, EVEN THOUGH LIFE IS UNFAIR. BUT THE WORLD IS FULL OF WICKEDNESS. The emphasis of the book from now on includes the tho...
AS WE LIVE LIFE IT IS GOOD TO REMEMBER ITS BREVITY (ECCLESIASTES 7:1). There now follow a number of wise sayings which are a reminder of the solemnity of life. Ecclesiastes 7:1 ‘A reputation (‘name...
Ecclesiastes 7 and ECCLESIASTES 8:1 I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities He has given us and the opp...
Ecclesiastes 5:8-7 I. We left Koheleth in the act of exhorting us to fear God. The fear of God, of course, implies a belief in the Divine superintendence of human affairs. This belief Koheleth now pro...
CONTENTS: Prudence recommended as a means of avoiding much of the vanity and vexation of the world. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The best way to save ourselves from the vexation which the v...
Ecclesiastes 7:1. _A good name is better than precious ointment._ Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48. Wisdom and virtue outlive t...
_It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting._ ON THE BENEFITS TO BE DERIVED FROM THE HOUSE OF MOURNING It is evident that the wise man does not prefer sorrow, up...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:2. FOR THAT IS THE END OF ALL MEN] Not the house of mourning itself, but the fact that every house must, in turn, become such. ECCLESIASTES 7:3. SORROW] Not that passi...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 7:1 Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED EXPERIENCES IN THE
Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again, it is important that we make note of the fact that the book o...
1 Peter 4:3; 1 Peter 4:4; Amos 6:3; Deuteronomy 32:29; Deuteronomy 32
The house — Where mourners meet to celebrate the funeral of a deceased friend. That — Death. The living — Will be seriously affected with it, whereas feasting is commonly attended with levity, and man...