Ecclesiastes 12:8
What meaning of the ecclesiastes 12:8 in the Bible?
What does Ecclesiastes 12:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity."
What does Ecclesiastes 12:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity."
Verse Ecclesiastes 12:8. This affecting and minute description of _old age_ and _death_ is concluded by the author with the same exclamation by which he began this book: _O vanity of vanities_, saith...
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 concluding sentence of the previ...
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...
_Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity_ The recurrence at the close of the book, and after words which, taken as we have taken them, suggest a nobler view of life, of the same sad burd...
VANITY OF VANITIES.— The least reflection upon that ultimate term of all our occupations, enjoyments, and schemes of happiness in this world, _death,_ naturally brings into one's mind the maxim set fo...
G. DEATH COMES TO EVERY MAN. Ecclesiastes 12:2-8 TEXT 12:2-8 2 before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and clouds return after the rain; 3 in the day that the watchmen of...
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...
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...
הֲבֵ֧ל הֲבָלִ֛ים אָמַ֥ר הַ קֹּוהֶ֖לֶת הַ כֹּ֥ל הָֽבֶל׃...
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. O...
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...
_Ecclesiastes. "The preacher." (Worthington) --- He returns to his first proposition, and having pushed the objection of free-thinkers as far as possible, shews us what we ought to believe and practis...
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. (7) Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: an...
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...
VANITY OF VANITIES, SAITH THE PREACHER,.... The wise man, or preacher, set out in the beginning of the book with this doctrine, or proposition, which he undertook to prove; and now having proved it by...
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity. Ver. 8. _Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher._] Who chose for his text this argument of the vanity of human things, which having fully prov...
_Vanity of vanities_ This sentence, wherewith he began this book, he here repeats in the end of it, as that which he had proved in all the foregoing discourse, and that which naturally followed from b...
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, who now summarizes the teaching of the entire book; ALL IS VANITY, the entire human life in itself is empty and futile....
"VANITY OF VANITIES," SAYS THE PREACHER, "ALL IS VANITY!" This is. conclusion summing up Solomon's observations of this physical world or life under the sun. He has indeed proven his point. "Having d...
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...
This sentence, wherewith he began this book, he here repeateth in the end of it partly as that which he had proved in all the foregoing discourse, and partly as that which naturally and necessarily fo...
Ecclesiastes 12:8 Vanity H1892 vanities H1892 says H559 (H8804) Preacher H6953 vanity H1892 Ecclesiastes 1:2, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Ecclesiastes 2:17, Ecclesiastes 4:4, Ecclesiastes 6:12,...
‘Vanity of vanities,' says the Preacher, ‘all is vanity.' This is a reference to the whole of man's existence on earth. It signals the completion of what was commenced in Ecclesiastes 1:2, and the su...
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, tha...
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...
_Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, all is vanity._ TWO REVIEWS OF LIFE (with 2 Timothy 4:7): These two preachers were both distinguished men, aged men, men of wide experiences. Thus far they re...
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 12:8. VANITY OF VANITIES.] This repetition of chapter Ecclesiastes 1:2 shows that these words are intended to be placed at the head of the conclusion of the book. They i...
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...
Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 1:2; Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes 4:4; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Psalms 62:9...
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. Ther...
Vanity — This sentence, wherewith he began this book, he here repeats in the end of it, as that which he had proved in all the foregoing discourse, and that which naturally followed from both the bran...