George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ecclesiastes 1:4
Ever. Its substance remains, though the form be changed. (Calmet) --- At the end of time, it will be purified to continue for ever. (Worthington)
Ever. Its substance remains, though the form be changed. (Calmet) --- At the end of time, it will be purified to continue for ever. (Worthington)
Verse Ecclesiastes 1:4. ONE _GENERATION PASSETH AWAY_] Men succeed each other in unceasing generations: but the earth is still the same; it undergoes no change that leads to melioration, or greater pe...
Vanity is shown in mankind, the elements, and all that moves on earth; the same course is repeated again and again without any permanent result or real progress; and events and people alike are forgot...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS PART I. Chapter S 1-6 1. The Prologue and the Search Begun CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction and prologue (Ecclesiastes 1:1)_ 2. The seeker; his method and the results (Ecc...
ECCLESIASTES 1:2 may be called an introduction to the book; it also presents the writer's conclusions. He has surveyed life from many angles and decided that all human effort is fruitless and unavaili...
ABIDETH. standeth still, as in first occurrence (Genesis 18:8; Genesis 18:22; Genesis 19:27; Joshua 18:5.
_One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh_ The sentence loses in strength by the words inserted in italics. Better, GENERATION PASSETH AND GENERATION COMETH. This is, as it were, the...
_THIS EARTHLY LIFE IS VAIN-- ECCLESIASTES 1:1-4:_ The Book of Ecclesiastes is the preacher's sermon. The book is one continued speech or sermon from Solomon. Solomon is called by several different nam...
THE EARTH ABIDETH FOR EVER— _Remaineth the same for ever_] The meaning is, "The earth, considered as the scene of action, with respect to all mutable things, is no way affected by the continual and un...
2. Compared with the world, man is transitory and all his efforts are futile. Ecclesiastes 1:4-8 TEXT 1:4-8 4 A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. 5 Also, the...
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. (ONE) GENERATION PASSETH AWAY, AND (ANOTHER) GENERATION COMETH: BUT THE EARTH ABIDETH FOREVER. While the...
ALL IS VANITY 1-11. The writer describes himself. He declares that all things are transitory and without result, whether they be the works or the life of man, or the natural forces of heat, air, and...
THE EARTH ABIDETH] Man is so far from being lord of the earth, that it survives ever fresh generations of its inhabitants, and so by contrast brings out more clearly the brevity of their existence....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES THE AUTHOR The word ‘Ecclesiastes’ tells us about the author...
(3-11) Man is perpetually toiling, yet of all his toil there remains no abiding result. The natural world exhibits a spectacle of unceasing activity, with no real progress. The sun, the winds, the wat...
Comp. Sir. 14:19....
דֹּ֤ור הֹלֵךְ֙ וְ דֹ֣ור בָּ֔א וְ הָ
THE PROLOGUE In Which The Problem Of The Book Is Indirectly Stated Ecclesiastes 1:1 THE search for the _ summum bonum_, the quest of the Chief Good, is the theme of the book Ecclesiastes. Naturally...
THE TESTIMONY OF AN UNSATISFIED SOUL Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 _All is vanity_! This cry finds an echo in human hearts of every age and clime. Clod meant man to be happy. “These things,” said our Lord, “I...
The first verse of this chapter introduces us to the author of the Book. Taken in conjunction with verse Ecclesiastes 1:12, it leaves no room for doubt that he is Solomon. In stating his theme he empl...
[One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for (d) ever. (d) One man dies after another, and the earth remains longest, even to the last day, which yet is s...
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? (4) One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever. (5) The sun also ariseth, and the...
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...
[ONE] GENERATION PASSETH AWAY, AND [ANOTHER] GENERATION COMETH,.... This shows that a man can have no profit of all his labour under the sun, because of his short continuance; as soon almost as he has...
Ecclesiastes 1:4 [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. Ver. 4. _One generation passeth away, &c._] Therefore, no happiness here, because no a...
_One generation passeth away_, &c. Men continue but for one, and that a short age, and then they leave all their possessions, and therefore they cannot be happy here, because the source of happiness m...
One generation passeth away, sinking down into the dust of death, AND ANOTHER GENERATION COMETH, replacing those who are laid in the grave; there is a continual going and coming; BUT THE EARTH ABIDETH...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION...
"A GENERATION GOES AND. GENERATION COMES, BUT THE EARTH REMAINS FOREVER.""One generation enters as another exits, the tragedy manifests itself when men, the highest of God's creation and made from the...
4-8 All things change, and never rest. Man, after all his labour, is no nearer finding rest than the sun, the wind, or the current of the river. His soul will find no rest, if he has it not from God....
ONE GENERATION PASSETH AWAY, AND ANOTHER GENERATION COMETH: men continue but for one, and that a short age, and then they leave all their possessions to the succeeding age; and therefore they cannot b...
Ecclesiastes 1:4 generation H1755 away H1980 (H8802) generation H1755 comes H935 (H8802) (H8676) H935 ...
THE MEANINGLESSNESS OF WHAT MEN SEEK TO ACCOMPLISH COMES OUT IN THE FACT THAT LIFE SIMPLY FOLLOWS A CONTINUAL UNCHANGING REPETITION. IT IS PURPOSELESS AND BORING AND UNENLIGHTENING AND ACCOMPLISHES NO...
Ecclesiastes 1:4 I. It is universally acknowledged that the circle is the archetype of all forms, physically as well as mathematically. It is the most complete figure, the most stable under violence,...
Ecclesiastes 1:4 It is the manifest intention of the Divine Spirit, as shown in the sacred writings, that we should be taught to find emblems in the world we are placed in to enforce solemn instructi...
Ecclesiastes 1:2 I. This passage is the preamble to the book; it ushers us at once into its realms of dreariness. It is as if he said, "It is all a weary go-round. There are no novelties, no wonders,...
Ecclesiastes 1:1 The search for the _summum bonum_, the quest of the chief good, is the theme of the book of Ecclesiastes. Naturally we look to find this theme, this problem, this "riddle of the painf...
CONTENTS: The doctrine of the vanity of the creature, and the impossibility of finding satisfaction without God. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: All things, considered as abstract from God, an...
Ecclesiastes 1:2. _Vanity of vanities._ This is the Hebrew form of the superlative degree of comparison; as, the heaven of heavens, the song of songs, &c. He adds, “vexation of spirit,” because his re...
_One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh._ THE LAW OF CIRCULARITY, OR RETROGRESSION, AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF PROGRESS The circle is the archetype of all forms, physically as well a...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 1:4 First Catalog of “Vanities.” The Preacher gives specific examples to prove his belief that all is “vanity.”...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 1:2. VANITY.] The Hebrew word is Hebel (Abel) the name given to one of the sons of Adam. The subjection of the whole creation to vanity was soon observed and felt. ECCLE...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 1:1 THE TITLE. THE WORDS OF THE PREACHER, THE SON OF DAVID, KING IN JERUSALEM; Septuagint, "King of Israel in Jerusalem" (comp.Ecclesiastes 1:12). The word rendered "Preacher...
Book of Ecclesiastes begins, The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem (Ecclesiastes 1:1). So that identifies the author as Solomon. The Hebrew word that is translated preacher i...
2 Peter 3:10; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Exodus 1:6; Exodus 1:7; Exodus 6:16;...
THE MAN UNDER THE SUN Ecclesiastes 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In order to introduce this study we can think of no better way than to go to our booklet on Ecclesiastes for a quotation. 1. ECCLESIASTES S...
Passeth — Men continue but for one, and that a short age, and then they leave all their possessions, and therefore they cannot be happy here, because happiness must needs be unchangeable and eternal;...