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Verse 21. _WHO KNOWETH THE SPIRIT OF MAN_] I think the meaning of this
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The nobler part of _man_, 'tis true, survives
The frail corporeal fra...
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That great anomaly in the moral government of this world, the
seemingly unequal distribution of rewards and punishments, will be
rectified by God, who has future times and events under His control
Ecc...
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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 ...
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MAN NO BETTER THAN THE BEASTS.
Ecclesiastes 3:16. Both in the administration of the law and the
observances of religion, wickedness is prevalent; righteousness is
here equivalent to piety.
Ecclesiast...
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SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9.
OF MAN. Hebrew "of the sons of Adam". See notes on verses:
Ecclesiastes 3:3; Ecclesiastes 3:10; Ecclesiastes 3:13;...
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_Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward_ The words imply a
strictly sceptical rather than a negative answer. They do not actually
deny, still less do they affirm, as some have thought, that t...
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WHO KNOWETH THE SPIRIT OF MAN, &C.— _Who knoweth the breath of the
sons of man, whether it ascendeth upward; and the breath of a brute,
whether it descendeth downward to the earth?_ We have, from
Eccl...
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2. Working outside the framework of God's providence results in
frustration and defeat. Ecclesiastes 3:9-22
TEXT 3:9-22
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What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?
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I have...
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Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of
the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
WHO KNOWETH. Not doubt of the destination of man's spirit (). The
question expresses '...
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3:21 spirit (f-4) 'Breath' and 'spirit' are the same word in Hebrew.
go (g-12) go (g-22) Or 'that goeth.'...
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THE PRACTICAL IDEAL. ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNIVERSAL SCHEME
1-15. God is a God of order. The problem which the writer has set
himself is not yet solved. He has found that wisdom, culture,
pleasure, are al...
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M en wrest judgment; but God shall right all wrongs, though how, is
beyond our ken.
16, 17. The judges of his time troubled the writer. Yet in GOD'S
purposes, either here or in the future, unrighteou...
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THAT GOETH] RV 'whether it goeth upward.. downward,' thus neither
denying nor affirming that there is an intrinsic difference in the
soul of man. Christ had not yet come to bring 'life and immortality...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 3
A POEM ABOUT TIME – ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8...
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The LXX., followed by a great body of interpreters, ancient and
modern, translate, “Who knoweth whether the spirit of man goeth
upward?” &c, and this agrees better with the context of this
paragraph....
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מִ֣י יֹודֵ֗עַ ר֚וּחַ בְּנֵ֣י הָ
אָדָ֔ם הָ
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TO PRODUCE A MATERIALISTIC SCEPTICISM;
Ecclesiastes 3:18
(c) The "speculation" in the eye of business men is not commonly of a
philosophic cast, and therefore we do not look to find them arguing
them...
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AND BY HUMAN INJUSTICE AND PERVERSITY.
Ecclesiastes 3:16; Ecclesiastes 4:1
But not only are our endeavours to find the "good" of our labours
thwarted by the gracious, inflexible laws of the just God;...
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SECOND SECTION
The Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of Business
Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20
I. IF the true Good is not to be found in the School where Wisdom
utters her vo...
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The vanity of life under the sun is evidenced not merely in the
experience of the preacher himself, but in the wider outlook which he
has been able to take. He now gives us some of the results of that...
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Who (k) knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of
the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
(k) Meaning, that reason cannot comprehend that which faith believes
in....
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Who knoweth, &c., viz., experimentally; since no one in this life can
see a spirit. But as to the spirits of the beasts, which is merely
animal, and becomes extinct by the death of the beast, who can...
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And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that
wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity
was there. (17) I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous
and...
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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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WHO KNOWETH THE SPIRIT OF MAN THAT GOETH UPWARD?.... There is indeed a
difference between a man and a beast; though they have one breath,
they have not one spirit or soul; man has a rational and immor...
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Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the
beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ver. 21. _Who knoweth the Spirit?_] _q.d., _ Who but a man that is
spiritually rational,...
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_All go unto one place_ To the earth, as it is expressed Ecclesiastes
3:21, out of which they were both taken. _All turn to dust again_ All
their bodies, as it is explained Ecclesiastes 12:7. _Who kno...
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OF MAN:
_ Heb._ of the sons of man
GOETH UPWARD:
_ Heb._ is ascending...
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"WHO KNOWS THAT THE BREATH OF MAN ASCENDS UPWARD AND THE BREATH OF THE
BEAST DESCENDS DOWNWARD TO THE EARTH?"
Points To Note:
1 Solomon isn't an agnostic, for he knew what happened when people
died ...
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16-22 Without the fear of the Lord, man is but vanity; set that
aside, and judges will not use their power well. And there is another
Judge that stands before the door. With God there is a time for t...
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It might be objected, that the conditions of men and beasts are vastly
differing, because man's spirit goeth upward to God, ECCLESIASTES
12:7, but the spirit of a beast goeth downward, together with i...
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Ecclesiastes 3:21 knows H3045 (H8802) spirit H7307 sons H1121 men H120
goes H5927 (H8802) upward H4605 spir
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DEATH IS THE GREAT LEVELLER (ECCLESIASTES 3:18).
Now we discover the conflict taking place within him. He has had a
concept of everlastingness and of the necessity for future judgement.
How then does...
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Ecclesiastes 3:19
Has man, then, no real pre-eminence over the beast? Apparently, if we
grant the assumption of the Epicurean, this is the conclusion to which
we must come. If man have merely an anim...
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Ecclesiastes 1:12-3
Koheleth now mentions the unusual advantages which he had possessed
for enjoying life and making the best of it. His opportunities could
not have been greater, he considers, had h...
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CONTENTS: The mutability of all human affairs and the unchangeableness
and unsearchableness of the divine counsels.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: We live in a world of changes. The events of...
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Ecclesiastes 3:1. _To every thing there is a season._ The seasons of
the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9., divides the times into
twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the husbandm...
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_For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts._
MAN AND BEAST
It is difficult to determine the exact object of Ecclesiastes in
instituting this comparison: partly because the Hebrew is c...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:21 For the Preacher, the human
SPIRIT is a mysterious thing. While he affirms that the spirit returns
to God when a person dies, he does not know how it comes to re...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 3:22. FOR WHO SHALL BRING HIM TO SEE WHAT SHALL BE AFTER
HIM?] Man cannot tell what God will do in the future with all his
earthly circumstances—how far, in the great fu...
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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;...
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Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used
poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and
it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was
mono...
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2 Corinthians 5:1; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Acts 1:25; Ecclesiastes 12:7;...
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Who knoweth? — True it is, there is a difference, which is known by
good men; but the generality of mankind never mind it: their hearts
are wholly set on present and sensible things, and take no thoug...
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If there is life after death, why does Solomon declare that man has no
advantage over the beasts?
PROBLEM: The Bible teaches that the soul survives death (Philippians
1:23; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Revelati...