Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ecclesiastes 3:15
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God (f) requireth that which is past.
(f) God only causes what which is past, to return.
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God (f) requireth that which is past.
(f) God only causes what which is past, to return.
Verse 15. _THAT WHICH HATH BEEN IS NOW_] God governs the world _now_, as he _has governed_ it from the beginning; and the revolutions and operations of nature are the _same now_, that they have been f...
Rather, What has been - what was before, and what shall be has been before. The word “is” in our the King James Version is erroneously printed in Roman letters: it does not exist in the Hebrew (it sho...
2. FURTHER RESULTS OF THE SEARCH CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The times of man under the sun (Ecclesiastes 3:1)_ 2. When then is the good? (Ecclesiastes 3:12) 3. Concerning judgment and the future ...
From one point of view this section may be entitled _In Praise of Opportunism,_ from another _Human Helplessness._ Every action in which man can engage has its allotted season, but who can be sure tha...
_God requireth that which is past_ Better, SEEKS AFTER THAT WHICH IS PUT TO FLIGHT. The old thought of the uniformity of sequence in nature and in history which had before seemed oppressive in its mon...
THAT WHICH HATH BEEN, IS NOW, &C.— The second observation which serves also for a transition to the consequences to be inferred from the whole, and which is contained in Ecclesiastes 3:12 is, that God...
2. Working outside the framework of God's providence results in frustration and defeat. Ecclesiastes 3:9-22 TEXT 3:9-22 9 What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? 10 I have...
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. THAT WHICH HATH BEEN IS NOW. That which bath been in the mind of God from eternity is...
3:15 past. (d-24) Lit. 'seeketh what is driven away.'...
THE PRACTICAL IDEAL. ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNIVERSAL SCHEME 1-15. God is a God of order. The problem which the writer has set himself is not yet solved. He has found that wisdom, culture, pleasure, are al...
REQUIRETH] RV 'seeketh again,' bringeth back in an unchanging sequence: cp. Ecclesiastes 1:9....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 3 A POEM ABOUT TIME – ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8...
IS NOW. — Rather, _was long ago._ REQUIRETH. — _Seeketh again_: _i.e.,_ recalleth the past. The writer has not been speaking of the bringing the past into judgment, but of the immutable order of the...
מַה ־שֶּֽׁ הָיָה֙ כְּבָ֣ר ה֔וּא וַ אֲשֶׁ֥ר
THE QUEST OBSTRUCTED BY DIVINE ORDINANCES. Ecclesiastes 3:1 The time of birth, for instance, and the time of death, are ordained by a Power over which men have no control; they begin to be, and they...
SECOND SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of Business Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20 I. IF the true Good is not to be found in the School where Wisdom utters her vo...
The vanity of life under the sun is evidenced not merely in the experience of the preacher himself, but in the wider outlook which he has been able to take. He now gives us some of the results of that...
_Past. He causes plants to spring forth afresh. Hebrew, Septuagint, &c., "But will God seek after the oppressed?" Here commences another objection. (Calmet)_...
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? (10) I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. (11) He hath made everything beautiful in hi...
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...
THAT WHICH HATH SEEN IS NOW; AND THAT WHICH IS TO BE HATH ALREADY BEEN,.... That which has been from the beginning now is; that which cometh, and what shall be in the end of days, has been already, as...
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. Ver. 15. _That which hath been is now, &c., _] viz., With God, to whom all things are pre...
_That which hath been is now_ Things past, present, and to come, are all ordered by one constant counsel, in all parts and ages of the world. There is a continual return of the same motions of the hea...
That which hath been is now, it was established by God's creative act; AND THAT WHICH IS TO I, HATH ALREADY BEEN, in agreement with God's plans before the creation of the world; AND GOD REQUIRETH THAT...
THE NATURE OF HUMAN HAPPINESS...
THAT WHICH IS PAST: _ Heb._ that which is driven away...
"THAT WHICH IS HAS BEEN ALREADY, AND THAT WHICH WILL BE HAS ALREADY BEEN, FOR GOD SEEKS WHAT HAS PASSED BY."FOR GOD SEEKS WHAT HAS PASSED BY" -"Some events appear to contradict God's sovereign control...
11-15 Every thing is as God made it; not as it appears to us. We have the world so much in our hearts, are so taken up with thoughts and cares of worldly things, that we have neither time nor spirit...
THAT WHICH HATH BEEN IS NOW; AND THAT WHICH IS TO BE HATH ALREADY BEEN; things past, present, and to come, are all of the same nature, and all ordered in the same manner by one constant counsel and se...
Ecclesiastes 3:15 been H3528 already H3528 God H430 account H1245 (H8762) past H7291 (H8737) which hath -...
GOD HAS GIVEN MAN A CONCEPTION OF EVERLASTINGNESS. Here he provides something extra to what God has given men to do. While man has to work so hard, nevertheless God has made everything beautiful in it...
Ecclesiastes 3:15 I. God requireth the past throughout the universe. What are our sciences but memories of the past? Astronomy is the memory of the universe; geology is the memory of the earth; histor...
Ecclesiastes 1:12-3 Koheleth now mentions the unusual advantages which he had possessed for enjoying life and making the best of it. His opportunities could not have been greater, he considers, had h...
Ecclesiastes 3:1 I. Not only has God made everything, but there is a beauty in this arrangement where all is fortuitous to us, but all is fixed by Him. "He hath made everything beautiful in its time,...
CONTENTS: The mutability of all human affairs and the unchangeableness and unsearchableness of the divine counsels. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: We live in a world of changes. The events of...
Ecclesiastes 3:1. _To every thing there is a season._ The seasons of the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9., divides the times into twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the husbandm...
_That which hath been is now._ THE IMPOTENCY OF TIME; OR, THE ETERNALLY PERMANENT AMIDST THE CONSTANTLY FLUCTUATING “Impotency of time!” Why, time is anything but impotent! Is not its history a recor...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:9 Fear God, the Sovereign One. The vanity of life causes the Preacher to reflect on what is permanent and lasting: the sovereign God of the universe....
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 3:12. FOR WHO KNOWETH THE SPIRIT OF MAN THAT GOETH UPWARD.] Man has no distinct and certain knowledge of his own future destiny, or of that of other forms of life. The su...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 3:1 Section 4. In confirmation of the truth that man's happiness depends upon the will of God, Koheleth proceeds to show how _Providence arranges even the minutest concerns;...
Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was mono...
Ecclesiastes 1:10; Ecclesiastes 1:9...
Hath been — Things past, present, and to come, are all ordered by one constant counsel, in all parts and ages of the world. There is a continual return of the same motions of the heavenly bodies, of t...