I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly, that I might thoroughly understand the nature and difference of truth and error, of virtue and vice, all things being best understood by contraries, and might discern if there were any opinion or practice amongst men which would give him full satisfaction. Vexation of spirit; or, feeding upon wind, as Ecclesiastes 1:14.
Verse 17. _TO KNOW MADNESS AND FOLLY_] הוללות ושכלות _holloth_ _vesichluth_. Παραβολας και επιστημην, "Parables and science." - _Septuagint_. So the _Syriac_; nearly so the _Arabic_. "What were erro...
TO KNOW MADNESS AND FOLLY - A knowledge of folly would help him to discern wisdom, and to exercise that chief function of practical wisdom - to avoid folly....
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 1:12 TO ECCLESIASTES 2:26. QOHELETH'S INVESTIGATIONS. Assuming the character of Solomon the writer tells of his search for happiness under many forms. The pursuit of wisdom (Ecclesiastes...
MADNESS. the opposite of wisdom, as displayed in the loss of self-control; raving with self-conceit. So elsewhere in this book. FOLLY. infatuation. Hebrew. _sakal._ See note on- "wisdom", Proverbs 1:...
_And I gave my heart_ The apparent iteration of the phrase of Ecclesiastes 1:13 expresses the concentration of purpose. The writer adds that his search took a yet wider range. He sought to know wisdom...
_SOLOMON'S SITUATION AND HIS STUDIES -- ECCLESIASTES 1:12-18:_ Solomon showed that things that would normally be considered as what would make a person happy do not. Surely being king would make a man...
AND I GAVE MY HEART TO KNOW WISDOM— _For I applied myself to the knowledge of wisdom, and the knowledge of whatever is shining, and of science._ We meet in all languages with words which are as much,...
b. Wisdom is used exploring all that is done under heaven. Ecclesiastes 1:13-18 TEXT 1:13-18 13 And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is...
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. I GAVE MY HEART TO KNOW WISDOM ... MADNESS AND FOLLY - i:e., their effects, the...
AND FOLLY] He tries whether the study of folly may perchance give him some grasp of its opposite, viz. wisdom. But this too only serves to confirm him in his general conclusion. VEXATION OF SPIRIT] se...
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 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...
MADNESS AND FOLLY are words we should not expect to find in this context, and accordingly some interpreters have attempted by variations of reading to substitute for them words of the same nature as “...
וָ אֶתְּנָ֤ה לִבִּי֙ לָ דַ֣עַת חָכְמָ֔ה וְ
FIRST SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wisdom And In Pleasure Ecclesiastes 1:12; Ecclesiastes 2:1 OPPRESSED by his profound sense of the vanity of the life which man lives amid the play of per...
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...
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know (l) madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. (l) That is, vain things, which served to pleasure, in which was no convenienc...
_Errors. Septuagint, "parables and science." But to discern the mistakes of men is a part of wisdom, (Calmet) and Grabe substitutes "wanderings," instead of "parables," after Theodotion, as Hebrew eal...
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. (13) And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the so...
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...
AND I GAVE MY HEART TO KNOW WISDOM,.... Which is repeated, for the confirmation of it, from Ecclesiastes 1:13, and that it might be taken notice of how assiduous and diligent he had been in acquiring...
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. Ver. 17. _And to know madness and folly._] That by comparing of contraries, I migh...
_I communed with mine own heart_ I considered within myself in what condition I was, and what degrees of knowledge I had gained; and whether it was not my ignorance that made me unable to rectify thos...
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, on its positive side, AND TO KNOW MADNESS AND FOLLY, the error and foolishness of men, to estimate it properly; I PERCEIVED THAT THIS ALSO, namely, the activity of...
THE UNRELIABILITY OF EARTHLY WISDOM...
"AND. SET MY MIND TO KNOW WISDOM AND TO KNOW MADNESS AND FOLLY;. REALIZED THAT THIS ALSO IS STRIVING AFTER WIND." "to know wisdom" -Like many people, Solomon first tried to find meaning in intellectu...
12-18 Solomon tried all things, and found them vanity. He found his searches after knowledge weariness, not only to the flesh, but to the mind. The more he saw of the works done under the sun, the mo...
Ecclesiastes 1:17 set H5414 (H8799) heart H3820 know H3045 (H8800) wisdom H2451 know H3045 (H8800) madness
THE PREACHER HAS MADE HIS ENQUIRIES AND COMES UP WITH NOTHING (ECCLESIASTES 1:12 - ECCLESIASTES 2:26). The Preacher now brings out that he has made further enquiries and has come up with nothing. He f...
THE INTELLECTUAL SEARCH (ECCLESIASTES 1:12). Ecclesiastes 1:12 ‘I the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem, and I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom about all that is done und...
Ecclesiastes 1:17 There are two ways of arriving at the knowledge of the truth respecting the importance and benefit of holiness and goodness. These two ways are one the experience of what is good, th...
Ecclesiastes 1:12 I. Solomon's first resource was philosophy. He studied man's position in this world. His appetite for knowledge was omnivorous; and whilst hungering for the harvest, he was thankful...
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...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 1:4 First Catalog of “Vanities.” The Preacher gives specific examples to prove his belief that all is “vanity.”...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 1:17 As part of his quest TO KNOW WISDOM, the Preacher also seeks to understand MADNESS AND FOLLY. Apparently he believes that he can better understand wisdom if he a...
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...
1 Thessalonians 5:21; Ecclesiastes 2:10; Ecclesiastes 2:11; Ecclesiastes 1:13;...
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...
To know — That I might throughly understand the nature and difference of truth and error, of virtue and vice....