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Verse Ecclesiastes 1:5. and Ecclesiastes 1:6. These verses are
confused by being falsely divided. The first clause of the _sixth_
should be joined to the _fifth_ verse.
"The sun also ariseth, and th...
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HASTETH ... - literally, at his place panting (in his eagerness)
riseth he there....
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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...
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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...
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The Hebrew pauses in this verse are remarkable, and need. semicolon
between each clause....
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_The sun also ariseth_ From the standpoint of modern thought the sun
might seem even more than the earth to be the type of permanent
existence, but with the Hebrew, who looked on it in its phenomenal...
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_THINGS CONTINUALLY CHANGE YET REMAIN THE SAME -- ECCLESIASTES 1:5-8:_
Solomon pictured man as being like nature, changing quickly but
continually remaining the same. The runner is quick to find the c...
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2. Compared with the world, man is transitory and all his efforts are
futile. Ecclesiastes 1:4-8
TEXT 1:4-8
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A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth remains
forever.
5
Also, the...
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The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his
place where he arose.
THE SUN. ... HASTETH TO HIS PLACE WHERE HE AROSE - (Psalms 19:5.)
Panting is the Hebrew for "hasteth:" metaph...
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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...
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HASTETH TO HIS PLACE] The sun, on the supposition of his apparent
motion across the heavens from E. to W. by day, returns eastward
beneath the earth by night....
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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...
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HASTETH. — Heb., _panteth._ The word is used of eager desire (Job
7:2; Psalms 119:131).
WHERE HE AROSE. — Better, _there to rise again.
_...
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(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...
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וְ זָרַ֥ח הַ שֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ וּ בָ֣א הַ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Place daily. Its annual motion is then mentioned. (Calmet)_...
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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...
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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...
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THE SUN ALSO ARISETH, AND THE SUN GOETH DOWN, AND HASTETH TO HIS PLACE
WHERE HE AROSE. The sun rises in the morning and sets at evening in
our hemisphere, according to the appearance of things; and th...
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_The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his
place where he arose._
Ver. 5. _The sun also ariseth._] That sweet and swift creature (the
Persians deified it); so sweet that Eudoxu...
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_The sun also riseth_ The sun is in perpetual motion, rising, setting,
and rising again, and so constantly repeating its course in all
succeeding days, and years, and ages; and the like he observes
co...
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HASTETH:
_ Heb._ panteth...
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"ALSO, THE SUN RISES AND THE SUN SETS; AND HASTENING TO ITS PLACE IT
RISES THERE AGAIN"."THE SUN RISES" -Even the powerful sun is caught up
in this treadmill of vanity. The word "hastening" means to b...
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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....
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The sun is in perpetual motion, sometimes arising, and sometimes
setting, and then arising again, and so constantly repeating its
courses in all succeeding days, and years, and ages; and the like he
o...
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Ecclesiastes 1:5 sun H8121 rises H2224 (H8804) sun H8121 down H935
(H8804) hastens H7602 (H8802) place...
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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...
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 1:4 First Catalog of
“Vanities.” The Preacher gives specific examples to prove his
belief that all is “vanity.”...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Genesis 8:22; Habakkuk 3:11; Jeremiah 33:20; Joshua 10:13; Joshua 10:1
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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...
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The sun — The sun is in perpetual motion, rising, setting, and
rising again, and so constantly repeating its course in all succeeding
days, and years, and ages; and the like he observes concerning the...