Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go — Make this use of what I have said. Eat — Chearfully and thankfully enjoy thy comforts. Accepteth — Allows thee a comfortable enjoyment of his blessings.
Go — Make this use of what I have said. Eat — Chearfully and thankfully enjoy thy comforts. Accepteth — Allows thee a comfortable enjoyment of his blessings.
Verse Ecclesiastes 9:7. _GO THY WAY, EAT THY BREAD WITH JOY_] Do not vex and perplex yourselves with the dispensations and mysteries of Providence; enjoy the blessings which God has given you, and liv...
Read these six verses connectedly, in order to arrive at the meaning of the writer; and compare Ecclesiastes 2:1. After the description Ecclesiastes 9:5 of the portionless condition of the dead, the n...
CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The common fate (Ecclesiastes 9:1)_ 2. Make the best of life (Ecclesiastes 9:7) 3. The great uncertainty (Ecclesiastes 9:11)...
ECCLESIASTES 8:16 TO ECCLESIASTES 9:16. LIFE'S RIDDLE BAFFLES THE WISEST QUEST. The parenthesis in Ecclesiastes 8:16_ b_ describes the ceaseless effort of the keen student of life, or perhaps the fate
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27....
_Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy_ The DEBATER falls back, as before, on the Epicurean rule of tranquil regulated enjoyment, as in chs. Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:12; Ecclesiastes 3:22;...
4. Work regardless of the similar fate of the godly and the ungodly. Ecclesiastes 9:1-10 TEXT 9:1-10 1 For I have taken all this to my heart and explain it that righteous men, wise men, and their d...
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. EAT THY BREAD WITH JOY. Here the voice of the Spirit rebuts the voice of the flesh. Addr...
9:7 merry (a-13) Lit. 'good.'...
LIVE WORTHILY WHILE YOU MAY 1-3. The future is in God's hands. Good and bad alike must die....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 9 EVERYONE MUST DIE AT SOME TIME – ECCLESIASTES 9:1-10...
ACCEPTETH. — The thought has been expressed before (Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 8:15), that earthly enjoyment is to be received as given by God’s favour....
NOW. — Rather, _long ago. _...
לֵ֣ךְ אֱכֹ֤ל בְּ שִׂמְחָה֙ לַחְמֶ֔ךָ וּֽ שֲׁת
THE CHIEF GOOD NOT TO BE FOUND IN WISDOM: Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 9:1 1. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his position and equipment as he starts on his final course...
NOR IN PLEASURE: Ecclesiastes 9:7 Imagine, then, a Jew brought to the bitter pass which Coheleth has described. He has acquainted himself with wisdom, native and foreign; and wisdom has led him to co...
FOURTH SECTION The Quest Achieved. The Chief Good Is To Be Found, Not In Wisdom, Nor In Pleasure, Nor In Devotion To Affairs And Its Rewards; But In A Wise Use And A Wise Enjoyment Of The Present L...
In view of the evidences of the truth of the affirmation, "vanity... all is vanity," the preacher now turns to its effect on the mind of the man living "under the sun." He extols this worldly wisdom,...
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now (d) accepteth thy works. (d) They flatter themselves to be in God's favour, because they have all things in abun...
_God. Be grateful to him, and make a good use of his benefits, (St. Jerome, exp. 2.) or these are the words of libertines. (Bossuet) (St. Jerome, 1. explicat.) (Calmet)_...
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. There is a great beauty in this verse; if explained upon gospel principles. If a soul be ac...
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...
GO THY WAY,.... Thou righteous man, as Jarchi paraphrases it; and indeed epicures and voluptuous persons have no need of the following exhortation, and the reason annexed is not suitable to them; but...
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. Ver. 7. _Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy._] _Vade, iuste,_ go thy way, thou righteous ma...
_Go thy way_ Make this use of what I have said. _Eat thy bread_ Thy necessary and convenient food; _with joy_, &c. Cheerfully enjoy thy comforts, avoiding all distracting care and grief for the occurr...
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, this being the conclusion which the author reaches on the basis of his contemplations; FOR GOD NOW, AT THE PRESENT TIME, here...
CONCERNING HUMAN DESTINY...
"GO THEN, EAT YOUR BREAD IN HAPPINESS, AND DRINK YOUR WINE WITH. CHEERFUL HEART; FOR GOD HAS ALREADY APPROVED YOUR WORKS." "eat your bread in happiness" -Far from being depressed or discouraged by th...
4-10 The most despicable living man's state, is preferable to that of the most noble who have died impenitent. Solomon exhorts the wise and pious to cheerful confidence in God, whatever their conditi...
GO THY WAY, make this use of what I have said, EAT THY BREAD; thine own, the fruit of thy own labours, not what thou takest unjustly from others. _Bread_; necessary and convenient food; by which he ex...
Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go H3212 (H8798) eat H398 (H8798) bread H3899 joy H8057 drink H8354 (H8798) wine...
CHAPTER 9 THE SAME THINGS HAPPEN TO ALL WHETHER THEY BE RIGHTEOUS, WISE OR SONS OF MEN. AND IN THE END ALL DIE IN THE SAME WAY. SO LET THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE LIFE AS THEY MAY AND ENJOY IT FOR GOD HAS ACCE...
THE RIGHTEOUS MUST THEREFORE FIND JOY IN THEIR PRESENT LIFE FOR THERE IS NONE BEYOND THE GRAVE (ECCLESIASTES 9:7). The Preacher is still considering the facts on which he is to make his final decision...
Ecclesiastes 9:7 I. This is one of those passages, so remarkable in the writings of Solomon, in which the words of sinful men in the world are taken up by the Holy Ghost, to be applied in a Christian...
Ecclesiastes 8:16-10 I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth points out that it is impossible for us to construct a satisfactory policy of life. "The work of God," or, as...
CONTENTS: The universality of death and the need of minding the business of life and using wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: While there is life there is opportunity of preparing for dea...
Ecclesiastes 9:5. _The dead know not any thing._ This is explained by the next phrase, _the memory of them is forgotten._ Elijah went up to heaven, or paradise, as the Jews will have it. John 3:13. Si...
_Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now aceepteth thy works._ FESTIVAL JOY This is one of those passages, so remarkable in the writings of Solomon, in...
ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 9:7 When godly people find enjoyment in life, they know that it is due to God’s “approval” or “favor” (v. Ecclesiastes 9:7; compare...
CRITICAL NOTES.— ECCLESIASTES 9:8. LET THY GARMENTS BE ALWAYS WHITE; AND LET THY HEAD LACK NO OINTMENT] No literal observance of these circumstances of external appearance is intended; but rather an...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 9:1 One fate happens to all, and the dead are cut off from all the feelings and interests of life in the upper world. ECCLESIASTES 9:1 This continues the subject treated abo...
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them...
1 Chronicles 16:1; 1 Chronicles 29:21; 1 Kings 8:66; 2 Chronicles 30:23;...