And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many (z) books [there is] no end; and much study [is] a weariness of the flesh.
(z) These things cannot be comprehended in books or learned by study, but God must instruct your heart that you may only know that wisdom is the true happiness and the way to it is to fear God.
Verse Ecclesiastes 12:12. _AND FARTHER, BY THESE, MY SON, BE ADMONISHED_] Hear such teachers, and receive their admonitions; and do not receive the grace of God in vain. _OF MAKING MANY BOOKS_ THERE...
This passage is properly regarded as the Epilogue of the whole book; a kind of apology for the obscurity of many of its sayings. The passage serves therefore to make the book more intelligible and mor...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Youth and old age (Ecclesiastes 12:1)_ 2. The concluding epilogue (Ecclesiastes 12:9) Ecclesiastes 12:1. Childhood and youth are vanity! That is the concludin
EPILOGUE. Ecclesiastes 12:9 is an editor's praise of Qoheleth, who is identified with Solomon, the sage compiler of proverbial wisdom, who wrote words of truth in a pleasing and elegant (acceptable)...
AND FURTHER. Beyond these. Note the Structure above....
_And further, by these, my son, be admonished_ Better, AND FOR MORE THAN THESE (_i.e._for all that lies beyond), BE WARNED. The address "my son" is, as in Proverbs 1:1; Proverbs 2:1; Proverbs 10:15, t...
AND MOREOVER, BECAUSE THE PREACHER WAS WISE.— _And moreover the orator, as he was wise, still taught the people knowledge, and made himself to be listened to; nay, he sought out many important sentenc...
CONCLUSION Ecclesiastes 12:9-14 A. MAN IS ADMONISHED TO WORK IN HARMONY WITH GOD THROUGH THE WORDS OF ONE SHEPHERD. Ecclesiastes 12:9-12 TEXT 12:9-12 9 In addition to being a wise man, the Preacher...
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity. A summary of the first part. VANITY OF VANITIES. Resumption of the sentiment with which the book began (Ecclesiastes 1:2; 1 John 2:17). Vers...
IN LIFE REMEMBER DEATH AND JUDGMENT 1. The Creator is to be remembered in youth. When the powers of mind and body are failing, it will be too late. 1-7. Commentators have differed much as to the inte...
BE ADMONISHED] Jewish teaching was largely oral: Gentile philosophers, on the other hand, committed their speculations to writing, sometimes, e.g. Epicurus, to the extent of many volumes. Among such i...
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 12 YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD REMEMBER WHO MADE THEM – ECCLESIASTES 12:1-8 V1 Remember who...
STUDY. — The word occurs here only in the Old Testament; but is not a Talmudic word....
וְ יֹתֵ֥ר מֵ הֵ֖מָּה בְּנִ֣י הִזָּהֵ֑ר עֲשֹׂ֨
THE EPILOGUE In Which The Problem Of The Book Is Conclusively Solved Ecclesiastes 12:8 "STUDENTS," says the Talmud, "are of four kinds; they are like a sponge, a funnel, a strainer, and a sieve: lik...
“THE END OF THE MATTER” Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 This comparison of the human body to a house is extremely beautiful. The inference is obvious that our bodies are not ourselves, but only our tenement. Ou...
The preacher now proceeds in language full of poetic beauty to urge the young to remember their Creator. We then reach the epilogue of the sermon. It first repeats the theme as announced at the beginn...
_Not. I have had experience of all. --- End. They can teach nothing farther. (Calmet) --- -----Tenet insanabile multos_ Scribendi cacoethes.---- (Juvenal, Sat. vii.) --- Impious productions abound,...
And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs. (10) The preacher sought to find out acceptab...
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...
AND FURTHER, BY THESE, MY SON, BE ADMONISHED,.... Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, may be intended, for whose sake, more especially, this book might be written; though it may take in every hearer of this...
_And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books [there is] no end; and much study [is] a weariness of the flesh._ Ver. 12. _And further, by these, my son, be admonished._] By thes...
_He still taught the people knowledge_ As God gave him this wisdom, that he might be a teacher of others, so he used it to that end. _Gave heed_ He did not utter whatever came into his mind, but serio...
THE CONCLUSION OF THE BOOK...
And further, by these, by the proverbs and maxims of wisdom, MY SON, BE ADMONISHED, Solomon here speaking with fatherly affection. OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END, the number of useless and even...
STUDY: Or, reading...
"BUT BEYOND THIS, MY SON, BE WARNED: THE WRITING OF MANY BOOKS IS ENDLESS, AND EXCESSIVE DEVOTION TO BOOKS IS WEARYING TO THE BODY."BE WARNED" -"Curiously enough, as verse 12 perceives, this may not s...
8-14 Solomon repeats his text, VANITY OF VANITIES, ALL IS VANITY. These are the words of one that could speak by dear-bought experience of the vanity of the world, which can do nothing to ease men of...
BY THESE; by these wise men, and their words or writings, of which he spoke in the foregoing verse. BE ADMONISHED; take your instructions from them, for their words are right and true, as he said, ECC...
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CONCLUSION (ECCLESIASTES 12:9). Having given his final verdict on his musings the writer changes into the third person. This was in order to stress the solemnity of what he was saying. Moving into the...
Ecclesiastes 12:8 I. Koheleth has achieved the quest. He has solved the problem and given us his solution of it. He is about to repeat that solution. To give emphasis and force to the repetition, that...
Ecclesiastes 12:1. _Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth:_ Now we get on solid ground. There is an irony in the advice, «Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee...
Ecclesiastes 12:1. _Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;_ Do not give God the dre...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to the young to be religious. The vanity of the world. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The great antidote against the diseases of youth, the love of mirth, the indulgence...
Ecclesiastes 12:1. _Remember now thy Creator._ Hebrews בוראיךְ _Boreicha,_ thy Creators. The word is plural, as אלהים _Elohim, Genesis 1:1_, designating the Divinity or Godhead, as Romans 1:20. Certai...
_Of making many books there is no end._ BOOKS If true so many years before Christ, how much more true so many years a.d.! We so often see books, we have no appreciation of what a book is. It took all...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 12:8 Final Conclusion and Epilogue. The Preacher restates his claim that all is “vanity.” The epilogue affirms the wisdom of the Preacher, summons the reader to pay c...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 12:12. MY SON.] An expression appropriate to the master of wisdom when addressing his pupils; equivalent to “my scholar,” or “dear reader.” (Proverbs 1:8.) OF MAKING MANY...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 12:1 The division into chapters is unfortunate here, as this verse is closely connected with Ecclesiastes 12:10 of the preceding chapter. REMEMBER NOW THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS...
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth (Ecclesiastes 12:1), It is interesting that most conversions are made during the teenage years. Seven-eighths of every decision for Jesus Christ is m...
2 Peter 1:19; Ecclesiastes 1:18; John 20:31; John 21:25; John 5:39;...
THE RELIGION UNDER THE SUN Ecclesiastes 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We use the word "religion" in preference to "Christianity." There are many religions; there is but one Christianity, one Christ. There...
By these — By these wise men, and their writings....