Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ecclesiastes 1:6
The wind — The wind also sometimes blows from one quarter of the world, and sometimes from another; successively returning to the same quarters in which it had formerly been.
The wind — The wind also sometimes blows from one quarter of the world, and sometimes from another; successively returning to the same quarters in which it had formerly been.
Verse Ecclesiastes 1:6. "The wind is continually whirling about, and the wind returneth upon its whirlings." It is plain, from the clause which I have restored to the _fifth_ verse, that the author...
More literally, Going toward the south and veering toward the north, veering, veering goes the wind; and to its veerings the wind returns....
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...
WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. The first part of Ecclesiastes 1:6 continues the motion of the sun, going to the south (in winter) and turning about to the north (in summer). IT WHIRLETH: i.e. the wind...
_The wind goeth toward the south_ This comes after the sun as exhibiting a like, though more irregular, law of mutability. "South and north" only are named, partly, perhaps, because east and west were...
_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...
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...
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. ACCORDING TO (HEBREW, UPON) HIS CIRCUITS -...
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 WIND, etc.] We may render more closely thus: 'Going toward the south, and circling toward the north; circling, circling goeth the wind, and on its circlings returneth the wind.' The sameness invol...
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...
The order of the Hebrew words permits the first clause, “going towards the south and returning towards the north,” to be understood in continuation of the description of the movements of the sun, and...
(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...
הֹולֵךְ֙ אֶל ־דָּרֹ֔ום וְ סֹובֵ֖ב אֶל ־צָפֹ֑ו
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...
The (e) wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about to the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits. (e) By the sun, wind and rivers, he shows t...
_Spirit. The sun, (St. Jerome) which is like the soul of the world, and which some have falsely asserted to be animated; or rather (Calmet) the wind is meant, as one rises in different parts of the wo...
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...
THE WIND GOETH TOWARD THE SOUTH, AND TURNETH ABOUT UNTO THE NORTH,.... The word "wind" is not in this clause in the original text, but is taken from the next, and so may be rendered, "it goeth towards...
_The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits._ Ver. 6. _The wind goeth toward the south, &...
Ecc. 1:6. "The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about unto the north, it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuit." Whenever the wind blows from one q...
_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...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION...
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north, following certain fixed laws of the universe; IT WHIRLETH ABOUT CONTINUALLY, in an ever-returning change, AND THE WIND RETURNETH AGAI...
"BLOWING TOWARD THE SOUTH, THEN TURNING TOWARD THE NORTH, THE WIND CONTINUES SWIRLING ALONG; AND ON ITS CIRCULAR COURSES THE WIND RETURNS." Someone might say, "But what is freer than the wind?" But ev...
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....
THE WIND GOETH TOWARD THE SOUTH, AND TURNETH ABOUT UNTO THE NORTH; the wind also sometimes blows from one quarter of the world, and sometimes from another; all of them being synecdochically comprehend...
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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...
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 1:2 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...
Acts 27:13; Job 37:17; Job 37:9; John 3:8; Jonah 1:4;...
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...