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Verse Ecclesiastes 3:5. _A TIME TO CAST AWAY STONES, - TO GATHER
STONES, - TO_ _EMBRACE, - TO REFRAIN_]
"One while _domestic cares abortive_ prove,
And then _successful_. Nature now invites
_Connub...
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Stones may be regarded either as materials for building, or as
impediments to the fertility of land (see 2 Kings 3:19, 2 Kings 3:25;
Isaiah 5:2)....
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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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TO CAST AWAY STONES: as out of. vineyard. Isaiah 5:2.Leviticus 14:40;
Leviticus 14:45 Judges 20:16;...
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_A time to cast away stones_ The vagueness of the phrase has naturally
given rise to conjectural interpretations. It seems obvious that the
words cannot be a mere reproduction of Ecclesiastes 3:4 and...
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A TIME TO CAST AWAY STONES— This is differently understood. Calmet
says, it may either signify, "a time to cast away stones with a sling,
and a time to collect them again into a bag:" or, "A time to c...
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B. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THAT WE WORK UNDER THE RULE OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE
Ecclesiastes 3:1-22
1. Man should adjust to live his life within the framework of God's
providence. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
TEXT 3:1-8...
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A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a
time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A TIME TO CAST AWAY STONES - as out of a garden or vineyard (): as
not on...
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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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TO CAST AWAY stones] Probably the whole v. means peace and war, the
former expressed by leisure to clear away stones from a vineyard (cp.
Isaiah 5:2), and to indulge in family joys, the latter by the...
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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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GATHER STONES. — As the collecting of stones for building purposes
is included in Ecclesiastes 3:4, it is thought that what is here
referred to is the clearing or marring of land (Isaiah 5:2; Isaiah
6...
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AND THE CONVICTION THAT IT IS OPPOSED TO THE WILL OF GOD AS EXPRESSED
IN THE ORDINANCES OF HIS PROVIDENCE,
Ecclesiastes 3:1
This is one help to a wise content with our lot; but he has many more
at ou...
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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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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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_Stones, with a sling, or to render a field useless, 4 Kings iii. 25.,
and Isaias v. 2. --- Embraces. Countenance was sometimes prescribed
for married people, Leviticus xx. 18., and 1 Corinthians vii....
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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven: (2) A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and
a time to pluck up that which is planted; (3) A time to ki...
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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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A TIME TO CAST AWAY STONES, AND A TIME TO GATHER STONES TOGETHER,....
To cast stones out of a field or vineyard where they are hurtful, and
to gather them together to make walls and fences of, or buil...
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A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a
time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Ver. 5. _A time to cast away stones._] As when King Henry VIII pulled
down t...
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_A time to die_ And as there _is a time to die_, so there is a time to
rise again, a set time, when they that lie in the grave shall be
remembered. _A time to kill_ When men die a violent death. _A ti...
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a time to cast away stones, where they encumber the ground, AND A TIME
TO GATHER STONES TOGETHER, as for building purposes; A TIME TO
EMBRACE, to show one's love and affection, AND A TIME TO REFRAIN F...
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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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TO REFRAIN:
_ Heb._ to be far from...
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"A TIME TO THROW STONES, AND. TIME TO GATHER STONES;""Perhaps it is
best to see them as referring to the gathering and rejecting of
building materials" (Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 984).
ECCLESIASTES 3:...
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1-10 To expect unchanging happiness in a changing world, must end in
disappointment. To bring ourselves to our state in life, is our duty
and wisdom in this world. God's whole plan for the government...
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A TIME TO CAST AWAY STONES; which were brought together in order to
the building of a wall or house, but are now cast away, either because
the man who gathered them hath changed his mind, and desists...
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Ecclesiastes 3:5 time H6256 away H7993 (H8687) stones H68 time H6256
gather H3664 (H8800) stones H68 time...
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THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE (ECCLESIASTES 3:1).
Ecclesiastes 3:1
‘To everything there is a fixed season, and a time for every matter
under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to d...
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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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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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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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_A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together._
DECISION AND PERSEVERANCE NEEDED BY THE CHRISTIAN
Perhaps the primary meaning may refer to the method in which an
Eastern husbandma...
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_To everything there is a season._
TIMES AND SEASONS IN THE CHURCH
The principle which Solomon asserts, and which is of extreme
importance in all matters connected with our practical life in this
wor...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:1 Poem: A Time for Everything.
There is an appropriate occasion for every human event or activity.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 3:1. SEASON-TIME.] Season signifies a certain period or
term; time denotes a division of time in general.
ECCLESIASTES 3:2. A TIME TO PLANT, &C.] Used in O. T. as a met...
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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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1 Corinthians 7:5; 1 Samuel 21:4; 1 Samuel 21:5; 2 Kings 3:25;...
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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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Stones — Which were brought together in order to the building of a
wall or house. To embrace — When persons perform all friendly
offices one to another....