Verse 18. Wisdom is better than weapons of war] So proved in the case of Archimedes.
But one sinner] Such as the Roman butcher above mentioned.
Destroyeth much good] Such as were the life and skill of the Syracusan mathematician. One sinner has often injured the work of God; one stumbling-block has sometimes destroyed a revival of religion. Sin acts like a ferment; whatever comes in contact with it, it assimilates to itself.
SINNER - The word in the original indicates intellectual as well as moral error....
2. PRAISE OF WISDOM AND PHILOSOPHY, THEFINAL WORD AND THE GREAT CONCLUSION CHAPTER 9:13-18 Before he had declared that wisdom is strength. He comes back to this statement and gives an illustration o...
_Wisdom is better than weapons of war_ The maxim presents another illustration of the irony of history. The excellence of wisdom is acknowledged. Counsel is more than the _materiel_of war; the statesm...
DISCOURSE: 843 THE DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE OF SINNERS Ecclesiastes 9:18. _One sinner destroyeth much good_. THE influence of every man in his sphere is considerable. Solomon had seen a remarkable insta...
6. Wisdom is declared to be the greatest guide in our work. Ecclesiastes 9:13-18 TEXT 9:13-18 13 Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me. 14 There was a small city wi...
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. ONE SINNER ... - as Achan (; ). Though wisdom excels folly, and strengthens more than weapons of war (;...
LIVE WORTHILY WHILE YOU MAY 1-3. The future is in God's hands. Good and bad alike must die....
ONE SINNER, etc.] One man's evil deed may bring to nought wide-reaching purposes of good....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 9 EVERYONE MUST DIE AT SOME TIME – ECCLESIASTES 9:1-10...
טֹובָ֥ה חָכְמָ֖ה מִ כְּלֵ֣י קְרָ֑ב וְ חֹוטֶ֣א
NOR IN DEVOTION TO AFFAIRS AND ITS REWARDS. Ecclesiastes 9:13; Ecclesiastes 10:1 So far, then, Coheleth has been occupied in retracing the argument of the first Section of the Book. Now he returns up...
In view of the evidences of the truth of the affirmation, "vanity... all is vanity," the preacher now turns to its effect on the mind of the man living "under the sun." He extols this worldly wisdom,...
_Things. A woman saved Abela; and Achan almost ruined Israel. Want of prudence in a general is often fatal. Virtues are connected, as well as vices. (Calmet) --- For one transgression, many acts of vi...
REFLECTIONS READER! amidst many blessed meditations, which this chapter leads to, let us seek for grace from God the Spirit to derive improvements from the sweet view here opened to our souls concern...
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. (17) The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ru...
_THE SAVIOUR OF THE CITY_ ‘There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it,’ etc. Ecclesiastes 9:14 I. T...
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...
WISDOM [IS] BETTER THAN WEAPONS OF WAR,.... And does what they cannot do; of which the wisdom of the poor wise man is a full proof, which delivered the city from a potent prince, when weapons of war c...
_Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good._ Ver. 18. _Wisdom is better than weapons of war._] As David found it in his encounter with Goliath, Gideon in his stratag...
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, it is more desirable than the greatest physical and martial strength; BUT ONE SINNER, placing himself in opposition to the counsels of wisdom, Cf Joshua 7:1, DEST...
WISDOM STILL TO BE SOUGHT...
"WISDOM IS BETTER THAN WEAPONS OF WAR, BUT ONE SINNER DESTROYS MUCH GOOD." Points To Note: 1. Every government needs to take seriously the above truth, because so many governments rely upon their mil...
13-18 A man may, by his wisdom, bring to pass that which he could never do by his strength. If God be for us, who can be against us, or stand before us? Solomon observes the power of wisdom, though i...
THAN WEAPONS OF WAR; than armed power. SINNER; a wicked fool; by which expression and opposition of a sinner to a wise man he gives us a key to understand his meaning in divers places of his books, th...
Ecclesiastes 9:18 Wisdom H2451 better H2896 weapons H3627 war H7128 one H259 sinner H2398 (H8802) destroys H6
CHAPTER 9 THE SAME THINGS HAPPEN TO ALL WHETHER THEY BE RIGHTEOUS, WISE OR SONS OF MEN. AND IN THE END ALL DIE IN THE SAME WAY. SO LET THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE LIFE AS THEY MAY AND ENJOY IT FOR GOD HAS ACCE...
Ecclesiastes 8:16-10 I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth points out that it is impossible for us to construct a satisfactory policy of life. "The work of God," or, as...
Ecclesiastes 9:14 I. The little city. At first sight it may seem rather paradoxical to compare this great world of ours, with its almost innumerable inhabitants, its vast area, its enormous resources,...
CONTENTS: The universality of death and the need of minding the business of life and using wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: While there is life there is opportunity of preparing for dea...
Ecclesiastes 9:5. _The dead know not any thing._ This is explained by the next phrase, _the memory of them is forgotten._ Elijah went up to heaven, or paradise, as the Jews will have it. John 3:13. Si...
_The words of wise men are heard in quiet._ THE SUPERIORITY OF MORAL TO MILITARY FORCE “The words of wise men are heard in quiet”: words of thoughtfulness and conviction, silently dropping from the...
_There was a little city, and few men within it._ THE LITTLE CITY AND THE POOR WISE MAN The little city, as first introduced to our notice, is in sore straits. The legion of the foe seem innumerable,...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 9:13 Wisdom can achieve much good and is worth pursuing. Yet its benefits can be undone by evil. ⇐...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 9:17 Just as one wise man can successfully overcome the worst odds, so also ONE SINNER DESTROYS MUCH GOOD....
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 9:13. THIS WISDOM.] The special instance of the power of wisdom related in the next verse. ECCLESIASTES 9:14. FEW MEN WITHIN IT.] Not a city with a scanty population, b...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 9:1 One fate happens to all, and the dead are cut off from all the feelings and interests of life in the upper world. ECCLESIASTES 9:1 This continues the subject treated abo...
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them...
1 Samuel 14:28; 1 Samuel 14:29; 1 Samuel 14:36; 2 Samuel 20:1;...