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Verse Ecclesiastes 3:11. _BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME_] God's works are
well done; there are order, harmony, and beauty in them all. Even the
_caterpillar_ is a finished beauty in all the _changes_ through...
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Rather, He hath made all (the travail, Ecclesiastes 3:10) beautiful
(fit, in harmony with the whole work of God) in its time; also He hath
set eternity in their heart (i. e., the heart of the sons of...
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2. FURTHER RESULTS OF THE SEARCH
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The times of man under the sun (Ecclesiastes 3:1)_
2. When then is the good? (Ecclesiastes 3:12)
3. Concerning judgment and the future ...
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From one point of view this section may be entitled _In Praise of
Opportunism,_ from another _Human Helplessness._ Every action in which
man can engage has its allotted season, but who can be sure tha...
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HIS TIME. its proper season.
SET. put.
THE WORLD. Hebrew. _'olam_. the ages; or the world (in relation to
time). Here, put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject) for that
which is inscrutable b...
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_He hath made every thing beautiful in his time_ Better, as removing
the ambiguity of the possessive pronoun in modern English ears, "in
its time." The thinker rests for a time in the primeval faith o...
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ALSO HE HATH SET THE WORLD IN THEIR HEART— _He hath even set that
eternity in their hearts, without which no man can find out the design
of that work which God hath done from beginning to end._ The wo...
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2. Working outside the framework of God's providence results in
frustration and defeat. Ecclesiastes 3:9-22
TEXT 3:9-22
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What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?
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I have...
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He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the
world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God
maketh from the beginning to the end.
HE HATH MADE EVERY THI...
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3:11 world (b-14) i.e. 'the age;' others 'the infinite,' 'the
eternal.' _ Olam_ ....
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THE WORLD] rather, as RM, 'eternity.' Though man's powers are bounded,
he is capable of recognising the grand and immeasurable scope of God's
ordering of all things. HIS mind reflects the universe. Th...
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THE PRACTICAL IDEAL. ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNIVERSAL SCHEME
1-15. God is a God of order. The problem which the writer has set
himself is not yet solved. He has found that wisdom, culture,
pleasure, are al...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 3
A POEM ABOUT TIME – ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8...
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IN HIS TIME. — In modern English, “its.”
THE WORLD. — The word here translated “world” has that meaning
in post-Biblical Hebrew, but never elsewhere in the Old Testament,
where it occurs over 300 time...
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אֶת ־הַ כֹּ֥ל עָשָׂ֖ה יָפֶ֣ה בְ
עִתֹּ֑ו
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THE QUEST OBSTRUCTED BY DIVINE ORDINANCES.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
The time of birth, for instance, and the time of death, are ordained
by a Power over which men have no control; they begin to be, and they...
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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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BUT ABOVE ALL, IN THE IMMORTAL CRAVINGS WHICH HE HAS QUICKENED IN THE
SOUL.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
Nay, going to the very root of the matter and expounding its whole
philosophy, the Preacher teaches us th...
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The vanity of life under the sun is evidenced not merely in the
experience of the preacher himself, but in the wider outlook which he
has been able to take. He now gives us some of the results of that...
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He hath made every [thing] beautiful in its time: also he hath set the
(c) world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that
God maketh from the beginning to the end.
(c) God has given...
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_Consideration. Literally, "dispute." Hebrew and Septuagint, "heart."
(Haydock) --- Pagnin, "He has implanted the desire of immortality in
their hearts." --- End. If we could discover the properties o...
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What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? (10) I
have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be
exercised in it. (11) He hath made everything beautiful in hi...
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_A BEAUTIFUL WORLD_
He hath made every thing beautiful in His time.’
Ecclesiastes 3:11
I. THIS TRUTH BECOMES MORE MANIFESTLY TRUE IN THINGS IN PROPORTION AS
THEIR NATURE RISES.—Everything in the w...
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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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HE HATH MADE EVERY [THING] BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME,.... That is, God has
made everything; as all things in creation are made by him, for his
pleasure and glory, and all well and wisely, there is a beaut...
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He hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set the
world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God
maketh from the beginning to the end.
Ver. 11. He hath made...
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Ecc. 3:11. Instead of heart, it should have been translated _middle_.
God hath set the world in the middle of things. God has not set us at
the beginning, nor at the end of things. We see but the midd...
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_He hath made every thing beautiful in his time_ This seems to be
added as an apology for God's providence, notwithstanding all the
contrary events and confusions which are in the world. _He hath made...
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He hath made everything beautiful In his time, for the enjoyment of
men during the short period of their lives, in the proper season; ALSO
HE HATH SET THE WORLD IN THEIR HEART, so that they might unde...
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THE DEPENDENCE OF MAN UPON THE COURSE OF NATUREV. 1. TO EVERYTHING,
all that men undertake or do on earth, THERE IS A SEASON, AND A TIME
TO EVERY PURPOSE UNDER THE HEAVEN, under the government and pro...
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"HE HAS MADE EVERYTHING APPROPRIATE IN ITS TIME. HE HAS ALSO SET
ETERNITY IN THEIR HEART, YET SO THAT MAN WILL NOT FIND OUT THE WORK
WHICH GOD HAS DONE FROM THE BEGINNING EVEN TO THE
END.""Appropriate...
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11-15 Every thing is as God made it; not as it appears to us. We have
the world so much in our hearts, are so taken up with thoughts and
cares of worldly things, that we have neither time nor spirit...
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HE HATH MADE EVERY THING BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME: this seems to be added
as an apology for God's providence, notwithstanding all the contrary
events and confusions which are in the world. HE (i.e. _God_...
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Ecclesiastes 3:11 made H6213 (H8804) beautiful H3303 time H6256 put
H5414 (H8804) eternity H5769 hearts H3820
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GOD HAS GIVEN MAN A CONCEPTION OF EVERLASTINGNESS.
Here he provides something extra to what God has given men to do.
While man has to work so hard, nevertheless God has made everything
beautiful in it...
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Ecclesiastes 3:1
I. Not only has God made everything, but there is a beauty in this
arrangement where all is fortuitous to us, but all is fixed by Him.
"He hath made everything beautiful in its time,...
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Ecclesiastes 3:11
I. This truth becomes more manifestly true in things in proportion as
their nature rises. Everything in the world must be in its true place
and time, or it is not beautiful. That is...
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Ecclesiastes 1:12-3
Koheleth now mentions the unusual advantages which he had possessed
for enjoying life and making the best of it. His opportunities could
not have been greater, he considers, had h...
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CONTENTS: The mutability of all human affairs and the unchangeableness
and unsearchableness of the divine counsels.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: We live in a world of changes. The events of...
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Ecclesiastes 3:1. _To every thing there is a season._ The seasons of
the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9., divides the times into
twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the husbandm...
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_He hath made everything beautiful in His time._
BEAUTY
How rich are the traits and manifestations of man’s creative genius!
Think of the vast number and diversity of gorgeous and attractive
forms, w...
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_What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?_
AUTUMN MUSINGS
Autumn is a time which has its meaning, as well as its appropriate
duties. Its deep suggestiveness is written upon the...
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THE MONTH OF COLOR
He hath made every thing beautiful. Ecclesiastes 3:11.
One wet Saturday I went into a cottage in a country town, and there I
found two little girls who were very* happy. They had...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 3:11. IN HIS TIME.] This is the emphatic part of the
sentence. The fitting time is one of the chief elements in the ways of
Providence, which raises in us the thought of...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 3:1
Section 4. In confirmation of the truth that man's happiness depends
upon the will of God, Koheleth proceeds to show how _Providence
arranges even the minutest concerns;...
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Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used
poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and
it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was
mono...
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Deuteronomy 32:4; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Ecclesiastes 8:17; Genesis 1:31;...
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WHAT IS GOOD IN THIS LIFE
Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We come now to the second great question in the Book of Ecclesiastes.
It is expressed in Chapter s 6 and 12: "Who kno...
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He hath — This seems to be added as at apology for God's providence,
notwithstanding all the contrary events and confusions which are in
the world. He hath made (or doth make or do, by his providence...