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Verse Ecclesiastes 5:3. _FOR A DREAM COMETH_] That is, as _dreams_ are
generally the effect of the business in which we have been engaged
during the day; so a _multitude of words_ evidence the feeble...
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3. EXHORTATIONS ON DIFFERENT VANITIES
CHAPTER 5
_ 1. Concerning worship and vows (Ecclesiastes 5:1)_
2. Concerning extortions (Ecclesiastes 5:8)
3. The vanities of wealth (Eccle
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REALITY IN RELIGION. This section deals with worship and vows. Those
who go to the house of God (whether Temple or synagogue is not clear)
must go reverently and thoughtfully. Keep thy foot recalls th...
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_For a dream cometh through the multitude of business_ The one
psychological fact is meant to illustrate the other. The mind that has
lost the power to re-collect itself, haunted and harassed by the c...
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FOR A DREAM COMETH THROUGH THE MULTITUDE OF BUSINESS— _For as a
dream bringeth abundance of trouble, so does the voice of an ignorant_
[_or unguarded_] _man abundance of words._ Desvoeux....
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D. GUIDELINES FOR THE WORK OF WORSHIP Ecclesiastes 5:1-9
1. Watch your step in God's house. Ecclesiastes 5:1 a
TEXT 5:1a
Ecclesiastes 5:1 a Guard your steps as you go to the house of God,
THO
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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's
voice is known by multitude of words.
FOR A DREAM COMETH ... BUSINESS. As much "business," engrossing the
mind, gives birth to inc...
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A DREAM COMETH] excessive distractions by day bring disordered visions
at night. Even so excess in words shows folly in him who utters them.
_Is known_ by] RV 'with a.'...
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DISHEARTENING OUTLOOK ON LIFE
1-8. Disorders in the religious, in the political world. In the
earlier part of this chapter the writer turns from secular to
religious matters. H e points out the irrev...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 5
BE AFRAID TO MAKE GOD ANGRY – ECCLESIASTES 5:1-7
V1 Be careful when you go to God...
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_[Ecclesiastes 5:2]_ כִּ֛י בָּ֥א הַ חֲלֹ֖ום בְּ...
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SO ALSO A HAPPIER AND MORE EFFECTIVE METHOD OF WORSHIP IS OPEN TO MEN;
Ecclesiastes 5:1
The men of affairs are led from the vocations of the Market and the
intrigues of the Divan into the House of Go...
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PRACTICAL MAXIMS DEDUCED FROM THIS VIEW OF THE BUSINESS LIFE.
(b) A noble philosophy this, and pregnant with practical counsels of
great value. For if, as we close our study of this Section of the
Bo...
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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 observation of the religious life brings no truer satisfaction. In
this brief passage contempt for religion is not expressed, but there
is absolutely no joy or satisfaction manifest. The life is w...
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_Pay it. Deuteronomy xxiii. Vows must be fulfilled. (Worthington) ---
God requires that we should keep the commandments; (Luke x. 28.) and
if we engage ourselves to perform some work of supererogation...
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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's
voice is known by multitude of words. (4) When thou vowest a vow unto
God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay...
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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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FOR A DREAM COMETH THROUGH THE MULTITUDE OF BUSINESS,.... Or, "for as
a dream" q, so Aben Ezra; as that comes through a multiplicity of
business in the daytime, in which the mind has been busied, and...
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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's
voice [is known] by multitude of words.
Ver. 3. _For a dream cometh through the multitude of business._] When
all the rest of the se...
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_For a dream cometh_, &c. When men's minds are distracted and
oppressed with too much business in the day, they are frequently
disturbed with confused and perplexed dreams in the night. And as such
dr...
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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, when a person is
engrossed with the cares and anxieties of his work, his dreams are apt
to mislead him into a land of make believe; AND A FOOL'S V...
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PROPER WORSHIP OF GOD...
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"FOR THE DREAM COMES THROUGH MUCH EFFORT, AND THE VOICE OF. FOOL
THROUGH MANY WORDS".
There seems to be. comparison here. Just like. dream or nightmare
often results from excess effort (too many eart...
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1-3 Address thyself to the worship of God, and take time to compose
thyself for it. Keep thy thoughts from roving and wandering: keep thy
affections from running out toward wrong objects. We should a...
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When men's minds are distracted and oppressed with too much business
in the day, they dream of it in the night. A FOOL'S VOICE IS KNOWN; it
discovers the man to be a foolish, and rash, and inconsidera...
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Ecclesiastes 5:3 dream H2472 comes H935 (H8802) much H7230 activity
H6045 fools H3684 voice H6963 many H7230 w
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CHAPTER 5 TRUE RELIGION AND WORSHIP. THE PROBLEM OF RICHES. THE GOOD
LIFE.
The Importance of True Worship (Ecclesiastes 5:1).
This chapter now begins with one of those periods in The Preacher's
musin...
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Ecclesiastes 3:1
A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It
teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws which we had
no voice in making; that we often lie at th...
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Ecclesiastes 4:1
I. In the fourth chapter Koheleth comes to the conclusion that life is
essentially and irretrievably wretched wretched not because (as he had
formerly thought) it would so soon be ove...
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CONTENTS: Warnings against a vain religion. The vanity and vexation
attending the possession of wealth.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: We should address ourselves to the worship of God with a...
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Ecclesiastes 5:1. _Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God._
Avoid wandering thoughts, and be wholly absorbed in devotion. Do not
hear the words of prayer only, but desire the blessings soug...
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_Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God._
REVERENCE AND FIDELITY
This passage is a series of cautions against irreverence and
insincerity in worship, against discouragement because of pol...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:1 Fear God, the Holy and
Righteous One. In this section, the encouragement to “fear God” is
motivated by his holy and righteous character (compare note on...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 5:1. THY FOOT] The outward movement, as showing the
tendency of the heart. THE SACRIFICE OF FOOLS] Some unworthy
satisfaction of the religious idea—an offering whose purp...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 5:1
Section 6. Man's outward and secular life being unable to secure
happiness and satisfaction, can these be found in _popular religion?_
Religious exercises need the observa...
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Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to
hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they do not consider
the evil that they do (Ecclesiastes 5:1).
When you go into the...
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Ecclesiastes 10:12; Proverbs 10:19; Proverbs 15:2...
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A dream — When men are oppressed with business in the day, they
dream of it in the night. Is known — It discovers the man to be a
foolish, and rash, and inconsiderate man. Of words — Either in
prayer,...