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 interpretation of this passage. It has been taken by many as a description of the gradual failing of one... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCEPTABLE WORDS] He feels that proverbs were a form of speech that will find favour.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORDS OF THE WISE, ETC.] Leaders of thought in each age have the gift of fixing their words securely in the memories of their disciples (GOADS.. NAILS), a gift which comes to them from Him who is the supreme Guide and Disposer of the affairs of men (ONE SHEPHERD). MASTERS OF ASSEMBLIES] RM 'coll... [ Continue Reading ]
BE ADMONISHED] Jewish teaching was largely oral: Gentile philosophers, on the other hand, committed their speculations to writing, sometimes, e.g. Epicurus, to the extent of many volumes. Among such it was easy to be bewildered and wearied. 13-14. The writer's conclusions. There is a moral Governor... [ Continue Reading ]