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CHAPTER II
_The vanity of human courses in the works of pleasure,_
_planting, equipage, amassing wealth, c._, 1-11.
_Wisdom preferable to folly_, 12-14
_yet little difference between the wise and...
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Solomon’s trial of God’s second gift, namely, riches, and the
enjoyment which riches supply; this brought him to the sane result
(compare Ecclesiastes 1:12).
Comparing Solomon’s action with Luke 12:16...
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CHAPTER 2THE RESULTS OF THE SEARCH AND DIFFERENT VANITIES
_ 1. His personal experience (Ecclesiastes 2:1)_
2. Various vanities and a conclusion (Ecclesiastes 2:12)
Ecclesiastes 2:1
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ECCLESIASTES 1:12 TO ECCLESIASTES 2:26. QOHELETH'S INVESTIGATIONS.
Assuming the character of Solomon the writer tells of his search for
happiness under many forms. The pursuit of wisdom (Ecclesiastes...
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ECCLESIASTES 1:12 TO ECCLESIASTES 2:26. QOHELETH'S INVESTIGATIONS.
Assuming the character of Solomon the writer tells of his search for
happiness under many forms. The pursuit of wisdom (Ecclesiastes...
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ENJOY. look thou into.
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._...
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_I will prove thee with mirth_ The self-communing of the man talking
to his soul, like the rich man in Luke 12:18-19, in search of
happiness, leads him to yet another experiment. He will lay aside
phi...
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_THE VANITY OF SELF-INDULGENCE -- ECCLESIASTES 2:1-11:_ All through
the book of Ecclesiastes we observe Solomon as he thought and reasoned
within himself. He had looked upon and tried all the good, pl...
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c. Wisdom is used in the exploration of sensuous pleasure.
Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
TEXT 2:1-11
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I said to myself, Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy
yourself. And behold, it too was fut...
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I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth,
therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
I SAID IN MINE HEART. "I" (Heb., ani) is emphatic: I who had such
ample op...
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2:1 enjoy (d-15) Lit. 'see.' so ver. 24; chs. 3.13; 6.6, &c...
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EPICUREANISM AND WISDOM ALIKE PROFITLESS
1-3. The writer makes enjoyment his quest, while aware that it is
folly, and avoiding excess in a philosophic spirit....
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I WILL PROVE THEE WITH MIRTH] Wisdom, whether sought in nature or in
human things, having proved unsatisfying, he now makes a cast in
another direction. Increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow; bu...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 2
THE TEST TO DISCOVER WHAT MAKES A PERSON HAPPY – ECCLESIASTES 2:1-11...
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אָמַ֤רְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ בְּ לִבִּ֔י לְכָה
־נָּ֛א...
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FIRST SECTION
The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wisdom And In Pleasure
Ecclesiastes 1:12; Ecclesiastes 2:1
OPPRESSED by his profound sense of the vanity of the life which man
lives amid the play of pe...
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24-26, VAIN UNDERTAKINGS
Ecclesiastes 2:1-17
At the beginning of his search for happiness Solomon erected a
splendid home and planned all kinds of delights of an artistic and
sensuous nature. There w...
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Turning from the pursuit of knowledge to the pathway of pleasure, the
king had given himself up to mirth, seeking the false stimulus of
wine. In this also he had been disappointed, finding that mirth...
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I said in my heart, Come now, I will tempt (a) thee with mirth,
therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.
(a) Solomon makes this discourse with himself, as though he would try
whe...
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_Delights. He speaks in the name of libertines, (St. Gregory, Dial.
iv. 4.) or after his conversion. (Calmet) --- The worldling might
object that since wisdom affords not content, it is best to try
pl...
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I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth,
therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. (2) I said
of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? (3) I sought...
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CONTENTS
In this Chapter the Preacher prosecutes still further the doctrine of
the emptiness of creatures, to give happiness. Having in the former
Chapter stated the subject in general, he here enter...
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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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I SAID IN MINE HEART,.... He communed with his heart, he thought and
reasoned within himself, and came to this resolution in his own mind;
that since he could not find happiness in natural wisdom and...
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_I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth,
therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity._
Ver. 1. _Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth._] The merry Greeks
of...
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_I said in my heart_ Being disappointed of my hopes from knowledge, I
resolved to try another course. _Go to now_ O my soul! I will try
whether I cannot make thee happy by the enjoyment of sensual del...
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I said in mine heart, in considering carefully the possibility of
enjoyment, GO TO, NOW, I WILL PROVE THEE WITH MIRTH, to find out
whether he would feel happy and contented in enjoyment of the senses;...
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Solomon's own Example...
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"I SAID TO MYSELF, 'COME NOW,. WILL TEST YOU WITH PLEASURE. SO ENJOY
YOURSELF.' AND BEHOLD, IT TOO WAS FUTILITY."I SAID TO MYSELF" -like
the rich man in Luke 12:19. This type of statement reveals some...
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1-11 Solomon soon found mirth and pleasure to be vanity. What does
noisy, flashy mirth towards making a man happy? The manifold devices
of men's hearts, to get satisfaction from the world, and their...
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ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 2 Pleasure and mirth also vanity, ECCLESIASTES
2:1,2; whether in wine, or buildings and gardens, or servants, or
cattle, or silver and gold, or music, ECCLESIASTES 2:3. This the
P...
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Ecclesiastes 2:1 said H559 (H8804) heart H3820 Come H3212 (H8798) test
H5254 (H8762) mirth H8057 enjoy...
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CHAPTER 2 THE SEARCH FOR PLEASURE.
Experimenting With Good Things (Ecclesiastes 2:1).
Ecclesiastes 2:1
‘I said in my heart, “Go at it now, I will test out merriment.
Therefore enjoy pleasure (or ‘g...
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Ecclesiastes 1:12-2
I. As was natural in so wise a man, the Preacher turns first to
wisdom. It is the wisdom that is born of wide and varied experience,
not of abstract study. He acquaints himself wit...
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CONTENTS: Solomon shows that there is no true happiness and
satisfaction to be had in mirth, pleasure and the delights of sense.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: True and lasting happiness and...
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Ecclesiastes 2:1. _Enjoy pleasure._ The first doctrine of Epicurus,
whose system is here rebutted. Acts 17:18.
Ecclesiastes 2:2. _I said of laughter,_ of all forced and frantic joy,
_it is mad._ Chald...
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_Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth._
THE THREEFOLD VIEW OF HUMAN LIFE
Three views of human life are given in this remarkable chapter.
I. The theatrical view of life (Ecclesiastes 2:1). The wri...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 2:1 PLEASURE here apparently
refers to activities that can cause LAUGHTER....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 2:1. I SAID IN MINE HEART.] The pronoun is emphatic and
denotes the importance of the person who is speaking. There are
instances of such addresses to the soul in the Psa...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 2:1
Section 2. _Vanity of striving after pleasure and wealth._
ECCLESIASTES 2:1
Dissatisfied with the result of the pursuit of wisdom, Koheleth
embarks on a course of sensua...
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So I said in my heart, Go to now, I'm going to prove thee with
[pleasure,] with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: but, behold, this
was vanity (Ecclesiastes 2:1).
So we read in the New Testament the ep...
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2 Kings 5:5; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ecclesiastes 8:15; Ecclesiastes 1:16;...
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I said — Being disappointed of my hopes from knowledge, I resolved
to try another course. Go to — O my soul! I will try whether I
cannot make thee happy, by the enjoyment of sensual delights. Vanity
—...