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Verse Ecclesiastes 12:8. This affecting and minute description of
_old age_ and _death_ is concluded by the author with the same
exclamation by which he began this book: _O vanity of vanities_, saith...
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This passage is properly regarded as the Epilogue of the whole book; a
kind of apology for the obscurity of many of its sayings. The passage
serves therefore to make the book more intelligible and mor...
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CHAPTER 12
_ 1. Youth and old age (Ecclesiastes 12:1)_
2. The concluding epilogue (Ecclesiastes 12:9)
Ecclesiastes 12:1. Childhood and youth are vanity! That is the
concludin
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ECCLESIASTES 11:1 TO ECCLESIASTES 12:8. CLOSING COUNSELS. It is well
to do and to get all one can, in the way of industry and pleasure,
before old age draws on. Ecclesiastes 11:1 and...
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EPILOGUE.
Ecclesiastes 12:9 is an editor's praise of Qoheleth, who is identified
with Solomon, the sage compiler of proverbial wisdom, who wrote words
of truth in a pleasing and elegant (acceptable)...
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_Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity_ The recurrence
at the close of the book, and after words which, taken as we have
taken them, suggest a nobler view of life, of the same sad burd...
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VANITY OF VANITIES.— The least reflection upon that ultimate term of
all our occupations, enjoyments, and schemes of happiness in this
world, _death,_ naturally brings into one's mind the maxim set fo...
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G. DEATH COMES TO EVERY MAN. Ecclesiastes 12:2-8
TEXT 12:2-8
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before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and
clouds return after the rain;
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in the day that the watchmen of...
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Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
A summary of the first part.
VANITY OF VANITIES. Resumption of the sentiment with which the book
began (Ecclesiastes 1:2; 1 John 2:17).
Vers...
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IN LIFE REMEMBER DEATH AND JUDGMENT
1. The Creator is to be remembered in youth. When the powers of mind
and body are failing, it will be too late.
1-7. Commentators have differed much as to the inte...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 12
YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD REMEMBER WHO MADE THEM – ECCLESIASTES 12:1-8
V1 Remember who...
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הֲבֵ֧ל הֲבָלִ֛ים אָמַ֥ר הַ קֹּוהֶ֖לֶת
הַ כֹּ֥
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THE EPILOGUE
In Which The Problem Of The Book Is Conclusively Solved
Ecclesiastes 12:8
"STUDENTS," says the Talmud, "are of four kinds; they are like a
sponge, a funnel, a strainer, and a sieve: lik...
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“THE END OF THE MATTER”
Ecclesiastes 12:1-14
This comparison of the human body to a house is extremely beautiful.
The inference is obvious that our bodies are not ourselves, but only
our tenement. Ou...
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The preacher now proceeds in language full of poetic beauty to urge
the young to remember their Creator. We then reach the epilogue of the
sermon. It first repeats the theme as announced at the beginn...
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_Ecclesiastes. "The preacher." (Worthington) --- He returns to his
first proposition, and having pushed the objection of free-thinkers as
far as possible, shews us what we ought to believe and practis...
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Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or
the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the
cistern. (7) Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: an...
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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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VANITY OF VANITIES, SAITH THE PREACHER,.... The wise man, or preacher,
set out in the beginning of the book with this doctrine, or
proposition, which he undertook to prove; and now having proved it by...
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Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.
Ver. 8. _Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher._] Who chose for his
text this argument of the vanity of human things, which having fully
prov...
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_Vanity of vanities_ This sentence, wherewith he began this book, he
here repeats in the end of it, as that which he had proved in all the
foregoing discourse, and that which naturally followed from b...
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Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, who now summarizes the
teaching of the entire book; ALL IS VANITY, the entire human life in
itself is empty and futile....
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THE CONCLUSION OF THE BOOK...
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"VANITY OF VANITIES," SAYS THE PREACHER, "ALL IS VANITY!"
This is. conclusion summing up Solomon's observations of this physical
world or life under the sun. He has indeed proven his point. "Having
d...
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8-14 Solomon repeats his text, VANITY OF VANITIES, ALL IS VANITY.
These are the words of one that could speak by dear-bought experience
of the vanity of the world, which can do nothing to ease men of...
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This sentence, wherewith he began this book, he here repeateth in the
end of it partly as that which he had proved in all the foregoing
discourse, and partly as that which naturally and necessarily fo...
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Ecclesiastes 12:8 Vanity H1892 vanities H1892 says H559 (H8804)
Preacher H6953 vanity H1892...
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‘Vanity of vanities,' says the Preacher, ‘all is vanity.'
This is a reference to the whole of man's existence on earth. It
signals the completion of what was commenced in Ecclesiastes 1:2, and
the sum...
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Ecclesiastes 12:8
I. Koheleth has achieved the quest. He has solved the problem and
given us his solution of it. He is about to repeat that solution. To
give emphasis and force to the repetition, that...
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Ecclesiastes 12:1. _Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy
youth:_
Now we get on solid ground. There is an irony in the advice,
«Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee...
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Ecclesiastes 12:1. _Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth,
while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt
say, I have no pleasure in them;_
Do not give God the dre...
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CONTENTS: Exhortation to the young to be religious. The vanity of the
world.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: The great antidote against the diseases of youth, the love
of mirth, the indulgence...
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Ecclesiastes 12:1. _Remember now thy Creator._ Hebrews בוראיךְ
_Boreicha,_ thy Creators. The word is plural, as אלהים _Elohim,
Genesis 1:1_, designating the Divinity or Godhead, as Romans 1:20.
Certai...
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_Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, all is vanity._
TWO REVIEWS OF LIFE
(with 2 Timothy 4:7): These two preachers were both distinguished men,
aged men, men of wide experiences. Thus far they re...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 12:8. VANITY OF VANITIES.] This repetition of chapter
Ecclesiastes 1:2 shows that these words are intended to be placed at
the head of the conclusion of the book. They i...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 12:1
The division into chapters is unfortunate here, as this verse is
closely connected with Ecclesiastes 12:10 of the preceding chapter.
REMEMBER NOW THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS...
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Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth (Ecclesiastes 12:1),
It is interesting that most conversions are made during the teenage
years. Seven-eighths of every decision for Jesus Christ is m...
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Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 1:2; Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes
4:4;...
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THE RELIGION UNDER THE SUN
Ecclesiastes 12:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We use the word "religion" in preference to "Christianity." There are
many religions; there is but one Christianity, one Christ. There...
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Vanity — This sentence, wherewith he began this book, he here
repeats in the end of it, as that which he had proved in all the
foregoing discourse, and that which naturally followed from both the
bran...