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Verse Ecclesiastes 5:10. _HE THAT LOVETH SILVER SHALL NOT BE SATISFIED
WITH_ _SILVER_] The more he gets, the more he would get; for the
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Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia cres...
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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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CONCERNING DESPOTISM AND WEALTH.
Ecclesiastes 5:8 f. The oppression and injustice that one sees (_in_
an Oriental satrapy) are not to be wondered at when we remember the
graded hierarchy of officials...
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NOR HE THAT LOVETH, &C.. And who is [ever] content with abundance
without increase (capital without interest). No socialism or
"corruption" of text here....
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_He that loveth silver_ The sequence of thought led the DEBATER from
the evils of the love of money as seen in mis-government to those
which are seen in the life of the individual man. The conspicuous...
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E. ADMONITIONS CONCERNING THE FUTILITY OF RICHES 5:106:12
1. Riches by themselves are vain. Ecclesiastes 5:10-20
a. They do not satisfy. Ecclesiastes 5:10-12
TEXT 5:10-12
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He who loves money wil...
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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that
loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
NOT BE SATISFIED WITH SILVER Not only will God punish at last, but
meanwh...
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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 5:9]_ אֹהֵ֥ב כֶּ֨סֶף֙ לֹא
־יִשְׂבַּ֣ע כֶּ֔סֶף
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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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AND A MORE HELPFUL AND CONSOLATORY TRUST IN THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
Not content with this, however, the Preacher goes on to show how, when
they returned from the House of God to the c...
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AND TO TAKE FROM LIFE ITS QUIET AND INNOCENT ENJOYMENTS.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
(e) Now surely a life so thick with perils, so beset with temptations,
should have a very large and certain reward to offer....
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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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_Them. He shews the vanity of the great._...
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If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of
judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he
that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher...
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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 THAT LOVETH SILVER SHALL NOT BE SATISFIED WITH SILVER,.... The
tillage of the earth is necessary, a very laudable and useful
employment, and men do well to busy themselves in it; without this,
neit...
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_He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that
loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity._
Ver. 10. _He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver._]
As...
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_He that loveth silver shall not_, &c. The greatest treasures of
silver do not satisfy the covetous possessor of it, both because his
mind is insatiable, his desires being increased by and with his ga...
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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, for the
covetous is never satisfied, never happy; NOR HE THAT LOVETH ABUNDANCE
WITH INCREASE, having his heart set on a multitude of possessio...
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ABSTAINING FROM VICES AND FOSTERING VIRTUES...
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"HE WHO LOVES MONEY WILL NOT BE SATISFIED WITH MONEY, NOR HE WHO LOVES
ABUNDANCE WITH ITS INCOME. THIS TOO IS VANITY."
One of the great passages on the lack of real satisfaction which every
greedy per...
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9-17 The goodness of Providence is more equally distributed than
appears to a careless observer. The king needs the common things of
life, and the poor share them; they relish their morsel better tha...
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The greatest treasures of silver do not satisfy the covetous possessor
of it; partly because his mind is insatiable, and his desires are
increased by and with gains; partly because silver of itself ca...
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Ecclesiastes 5:10 loves H157 (H8802) silver H3701 satisfied H7646
(H8799) silver H3701 loves H157 (H8802) ab
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THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BURDENS AND PROBLEMS OF WEALTH (ECCLESIASTES 5:8).
Here we find a total contrast to the first seven verses. There the
thought was of attitude towards God. Now we move on to the atti...
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Ecclesiastes 5:9 ; ECCLESIASTES 6:1
I. In all grades of society human subsistence is very much the same.
Even princes are not fed with ambrosia, nor do poets subsist on
asphodel. The profit of the ea...
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Ecclesiastes 5:8-7
I. We left Koheleth in the act of exhorting us to fear God. The fear
of God, of course, implies a belief in the Divine superintendence of
human affairs. This belief Koheleth now pro...
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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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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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_He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver._
THE UNSATISFACTORINESS OF MATERIAL WEALTH
I. That as goods increase, desire increases. This is not the case
universally. There are men whos...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:8 Life “Under the Sun.” The
Preacher observes the hardships of life in a fallen world.
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Ecclesiastes 5:10_
THE IMPOTENCE OF WEALTH
Wealth, though it confers great social influence and power, has yet
some elements of weakness, and fails when the sever...
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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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1 Timothy 6:10; Ecclesiastes 1:17; Ecclesiastes 2:11; Ecclesiastes
2:17;...