CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:2. FOR THAT IS THE END OF ALL MEN] Not the house of mourning itself, but the fact that every house must, in turn, become such. ECCLESIASTES 7:3. SORROW] Not that passionate and unavailing sorrow of the children of this world, but that salutary grief for our own sinf... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:11. WISDOM IS GOOD WITH AN INHERITANCE] Wisdom, though good in itself, yet when joined with ample means imparts a power of doing good to others. ECCLESIASTES 7:12. WISDOM IS A DEFENCE, AND MONEY IS A DEFENCE] _Lit_., in the shadow of wisdom, etc. In countries where... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:16. BE NOT RIGHTEOUS OVER MUCH; NEITHER MAKE THYSELF OVERWISE] This is not intended to inculcate carelessness in moral conduct, nor as a beatitude upon ignorance. The meaning is, that we are not to serutinise too narrowly the ways of God. We are to avoid that boldnes... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 7:27. COUNTING ONE BY ONE, TO FIND OUT THE ACCOUNT] Collecting the results of many observations—thus forming an opinion carefully and slowly. ECCLESIASTES 7:29. MANY INVENTIONS] Refers not so much to the devices of wickedness, but rather to evil arts, perverse thinkin... [ Continue Reading ]