Ecclesiastes 3:11

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. HE HATH MADE EVERY THING BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME - i:e., in its proper season (Psalms 1:3); opposed to worldings, putting earthly pursuits out of their proper time and place (note, Ecclesiastes 3:9). Or the train of thought is, God does everything on a deliberate plan, not at random, as our ignorance of the relation of each successive event to the whole plan might tempt us to think. Many things in Ecclesiastes 2:1;...

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 to see God's hand in them. The world has not only gained possession of the heart, but has formed thoughts against the beauty of God's works. We mistake if we think we were born for ourselves; no, it is our business to do good in this life, which is short and uncertain; we have but little time to be doing good, therefore we should redeem time. Satisfaction with Divine Providence, is having faith that all things work together for good to them that love him. God doeth all, that men should fear before him. The world, as it has been, is, and will be. There has no change befallen us, nor has any temptation by it taken us, but such as is common to men....

Verse Ecclesiastes 3:11. _BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME_] God's works are well done; there are order, harmony, and beauty in them all. Even the _caterpillar_ is a finished beauty in all the _changes_ through which it passes, when its structure is properly examined, and the _end_ kept in view in which each change is to issue. Nothing of this kind can be said of the works of man. The most finished works of art are bungling jobs, when compared with the meanest operation of nature. _HE HATH SET THE WORLD IN THEIR HEART_] העולם _haolam_, that _hidden time_ - the period _beyond_ the present, - ETERNITY. The proper translation of this clause is the following: "Also that eternity hath he placed in their heart, without which man could not find out the work which God hath made from the commencement to the end." God has deeply rooted the

Rather, He hath made all (the travail, Ecclesiastes 3:10) beautiful (fit, in harmony with the whole work of God) in its time; also He hath set eternity in their heart (i. e., the heart of the sons of men, Ecclesiastes 3:10). The word, translated “world” in the text, and “eternity” in this note, is used seven times in Ecclesiastes. The interpretation “eternity,” is conceived in the sense of a long indefinite period of time, in accordance with the use of the word throughout this book, and the rest of the Old Testament. God has placed in the inborn constitution of man the capability of conceiving of eternity, the struggle to apprehend the everlasting, the longing after an eternal life....

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; that man can alter nothing, must make the best of things as they are, bear with anomalies, bounding his desires by this present life._ ECCLESIASTES 3:1 The providence of God disposes and arranges every detail of man's life. This proposition is stated first generally, and then worked out in particular by means of antithetical sentences. In Hebrew manuscripts and most printed texts Ecclesiastes 3:2 are arranged in two parallel col

HE HATH MADE EVERY [THING] BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME,.... That is, God has made everything; as all things in creation are made by him, for his pleasure and glory, and all well and wisely, there is a beauty in them all: so all things in providence; he upholds all things; he governs and orders all things according to the counsel of his will; some things are done immediately by him, others by instruments, and some are only permitted by him; some he does himself, some he wills to be done by others, and some he suffers to be done; but in all there is a beauty and harmony; and all are ordered, disposed, and overruled, to answer the wisest and greatest purposes; everything is done in the time in which he wills it shall; be done, and done in the time most fit and suitable for it to be done; all things before mentioned, for which there is a time, and all others: all natural things are beautiful in th...

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 (Ecclesiastes 3:16) Ecclesiastes 3:1. There is a time for everything. Twenty-eight “times” are mentioned, beginning with the time of birth and ending with the time for peace. Everything has a fixed time: Life-death; seeding-harvesting; killing-healing; breaking-down building-up; weeping-laughing; mourning-dancing, etc. These are the times of the entire race; that is what human life

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 that he has found this season? God's plan can be known only in part, hence man's efforts to succeed are always liable to fail; nothing remains but to enjoy the present. ECCLESIASTES 3:1. PURPOSE: read business or affair. In the Heb. the antitheses that follow are in parallel columns like a Greek _sustoichia_ or Table of Contrasts. Ecclesiastes 3:2. Untimely birth and untimely death are both abhorrent; human entrances and exits have their parallel in the agricultural operations of sowing and reaping. There is no need to compare...

HIS TIME. its proper season. SET. put. THE WORLD. Hebrew. _'olam_. the ages; or the world (in relation to time). Here, put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject) for that which is inscrutable by man, viz. obscurity as to the past and the future ages, resulting in man's incapacity for finding out, or comprehending the whole of what God doeth. This has resulted from the Fall. THEIR: i.e. the sons of men (Ecclesiastes 3:10). GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ (with Art.). the true God, or the Deity. App-4. MAKETH. hath made, or done. BEGINNING TO THE END. The reason being given in Ecclesiastes 3:14. Man sees his own times of verses:...

_He hath made every thing beautiful in his time_ Better, as removing the ambiguity of the possessive pronoun in modern English ears, "in its time." The thinker rests for a time in the primeval faith of Israel that all things were created "very good" (Genesis 1:31), in the Stoic thought of a divine system, a _Cosmos_of order and of beauty, of a plan, even in the development of human history, in which all things work together for good. So even in Lucretius, "Certa suo quia tempore semina rerum Cum confluxerunt, patefit quodcumque creator." "So when the germs of things in season due Have met together, all creation's work Is to our eyes made open." _De Rer. Nat_. i. 176. What hinders it from being a final resting-place of thought is that his knowledge is confined within narrow limits. He sees but a fragment, and the "most part" of the Divine Wo