Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw 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; As Ecclesiastes 11:9, showed what youths are to shun, so this, verse shows what they are to follow. CREATOR. "Remember" that thou art not thine own, but God's property; because He has created thee. Therefore serve Him with thy 'all' (), and with thy best days, not with the dregs of them. The Hebrew is Creators, plural, implying the plurality of persons, as in ; so Hebrew, Makers ...

1-7 We should remember our sins against our Creator, repent, and seek forgiveness. We should remember our duties, and set about them, looking to him for grace and strength. This should be done early, while the body is strong, and the spirits active. When a man has the pain of reviewing a misspent life, his not having given up sin and worldly vanities till he is forced to say, I have no pleasure in them, renders his sincerity very questionable. Then follows a figurative description of old age and its infirmities, which has some difficulties; but the meaning is plain, to show how uncomfortable, generally, the days of old age are. As the four verses, Ecclesiastes 12:2, are a figurative description of the infirmities that usually accompany old age, ver. Ecclesiastes 12:6 notices the circumstances...

CHAPTER XII _Youth should remember their Creator_, 1. _A description of old age and its infirmities, with the causes_ _of death and dissolution_, 2-9. _How the Preacher taught the people knowledge_, 9-11. _General directions, and conclusion of the work_, 12-14. NOTES ON CHAP. XII Verse Ecclesiastes 12:1. _REMEMBER THY CREATOR_] בוראיך _Boreeycha_, thy CREATORS. The word is most certainly in the _plural_ number in all our common Hebrew Bibles; but it is in the _singular_ number, בוראך _Borecha_, in _one hundred and seventy-six_ of Dr. _Kennicott's_ MSS., and n

REMEMBER NOW - Rather, And remember. The connection between this verse and the preceding one is unfortunately interrupted by our division of chapters. CREATOR - Gratitude to God as Creator is here inculcated, as just previously Ecclesiastes 11:9 fear of God as Judge. Godliness, acquired as a habit in youth, is recommended as the proper compensation for that natural cessation of youthful happiness which makes the days of old age more or less evil; more evil in proportion since there is less of godliness in the heart, and less evil where there is more godliness. WHILE THE EVIL DAYS COME NOT - Rather, before the evil days come....

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 OF THY YOUTH. Set God always before thine eyes from thy earliest days; think who made thee, and what thou wast made for, not for self-pleasing only, not to gratify thy passions which now are strong; but that thou mightest use thy powers and energy in accordance with the laws of thy being as a creature of God's hands, responsible to him for the use of the faculties and capacities with which he has endowed thee. The word for "Creator" is the participle of the Verb _bara, _which is that used in...

REMEMBER NOW THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF THY YOUTH,.... Or "Creators" b; as "Makers", Job 35:10; for more than one were concerned, as in the creation of all things in general, so of man in particular, Genesis 1:26; and these are neither more nor fewer than three; and are Father, Son, Spirit; the one God that has created men, Malachi 2:10; the Father, who is the God of all flesh, and the Father of spirits; the former both of the bodies and souls of men, Jeremiah 31:27; the Son, by whom all things are created; for he that is the Redeemer and husband of his church, which are characters and relations peculiar to the Son, is the Creator,...

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 dregs of life. Do not offer in sacrifice to him anything that is worn out. Remember that, among the first fruits which the Jews were to bring to the priest to be offered on God's altar, there were to be «green ears of corn, dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.» The Lord delights to have the hearts of his people while they are yet children. The Lord says, through Hosea the prophet, «I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms;» as if, while they were but little, God had taught them to take their first steps in walking. There is also that passage in the prophecy of Jeremiah, «I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when

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 concluding sentence of the previous chapter. The vanities of life, the doom and darkness of the grave are uppermost in his mind, and the final word he speaks, ere he closeth with his epilogue, is the same with which he began his search, the search which brought out so many things, yet nothing in reality--as in the beginning of the book, so now he cries out, “Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity” (verse 8). He has come back in all his reasoning to the place from which he started. On

ECCLESIASTES 11:1 TO ECCLESIASTES 12:8. CLOSING COUNSELS. It is well to do and to get all one can, in the way of industry and pleasure, before old age draws on. Ecclesiastes 11:1 and Ecclesiastes 11:2 are best taken as referring either to merchandise or generosity, though bread has also been interpreted as seed sown on irrigated land (_cf._ Ecclesiastes 11:4 and Ecclesiastes 11:6) or even as human semen, and...

NOW. also. CREATOR. Plural of Majesty. the [great] Creator, or. reference to the Trinity. EVIL DAYS. days of the misfortune: i.e. affliction and death. Hebrew. _ra'a'_. App-44. i.e. the days described in following verses. PLEASURE. See note on Ecclesiastes 3:1....