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Verse Ecclesiastes 5:4. _WHEN THOU VOWEST A VOW_] When in distress and
difficulty, men are apt to promise much to God if he will relieve
them; but generally forget the vow when the distress or trouble...
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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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REALITY IN RELIGION. This section deals with worship and vows. Those
who go to the house of God (whether Temple or synagogue is not clear)
must go reverently and thoughtfully. Keep thy foot recalls th...
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VOWEST. VOW. makest. solemn vow. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_
(App-6).
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.
PLEASURE. See note on "purpose", Ecclesiastes 3:1, and App-76....
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_When thou vowest a vow unto God_ The words are almost a reproduction
of Deuteronomy 23:22-24. They point to a time when vows, such as are
here referred to, entered largely into men's personal religio...
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DISCOURSE: 832
DUTY OF PAYING OUR VOWS
Ecclesiastes 5:4, _When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay
it; for he hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou hast rowed.
Better is it that tho...
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FOR HE HATH NO PLEASURE IN FOOLS— For it is the property _of fools_
to have _no_ fixed _will._ Desvoeux. The Hebrew is, _For no will in
fools;_ and so the LXX render it....
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D. GUIDELINES FOR THE WORK OF WORSHIP Ecclesiastes 5:1-9
1. Watch your step in God's house. Ecclesiastes 5:1 a
TEXT 5:1a
Ecclesiastes 5:1 a Guard your steps as you go to the house of God,
THO
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When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no
pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
WHEN THOU VOWEST A VOW (). Hasty words in prayer (Ecclesiastes 5:2)
suggest t...
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DEFER NOT TO PAY IT] A vow is not essential, but once made it is
binding: cp. Deuteronomy 23:21. Vows had an important place in the
religion of Israel, as we see from Genesis 28:20; Numbers 6:2.;...
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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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There is here a clear recognition of the passage in Deuteronomy. (See
ref.; comp. Sir. 18:23.)
NO PLEASURE IN FOOLS. — Comp. Isaiah 62:4....
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_[Ecclesiastes 5:3]_ כַּ אֲשֶׁר֩ תִּדֹּ֨ר
נֶ֜דֶר לֵֽ...
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SO ALSO A HAPPIER AND MORE EFFECTIVE METHOD OF WORSHIP IS OPEN TO MEN;
Ecclesiastes 5:1
The men of affairs are led from the vocations of the Market and the
intrigues of the Divan into the House of Go...
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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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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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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's
voice is known by multitude of words. (4) When thou vowest a vow unto
God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay...
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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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WHEN THOU VOWEST A VOW UNTO GOD,.... Or "if thou vowest" r, as the
Vulgate Latin version; for vows are free and indifferent things, which
persons may make or not; there is no precept for them in the w...
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_When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath]
no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed._
Ver. 4. _When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it._] _See
Trapp...
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_When thou vowest a vow unto God_ When thou obligest thyself by a
solemn promise to honour God, and serve the interest of his kingdom;
or to do good to any of thy fellow-creatures in some particular w...
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When thou vowest a vow unto God, such vows among the Jews being
included in the precepts of their religion, Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy
23:21, DEFER NOT TO PAY IT, this admonition being directed against...
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PROPER WORSHIP OF GOD...
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"WHEN YOU MAKE. VOW TO GOD, DO NOT BE LATE IN PAYING IT, FOR HE TAKES
NO DELIGHT IN FOOLS. PAY WHAT YOU VOW!"DO NOT BE LATE IN PAYING IT"
-God expects us to keep our word (Deut. Ecclesiastes 23:21-23)...
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4-8 When a person made engagements rashly, he suffered his mouth to
cause his flesh to sin. The case supposes a man coming to the priest,
and pretending that his vow was made rashly, and that it woul...
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A VOW; which is a solemn promise, whereby a man binds himself to do
something which is in his power to do. DEFER NOT TO PAY IT; perform it
whilst the sense of thine obligation is fresh and strong upon...
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Ecclesiastes 5:4 make H5087 (H8799) vow H5088 God H430 delay H309
(H8762) pay H7999 (H8763) pleasure...
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CHAPTER 5 TRUE RELIGION AND WORSHIP. THE PROBLEM OF RICHES. THE GOOD
LIFE.
The Importance of True Worship (Ecclesiastes 5:1).
This chapter now begins with one of those periods in The Preacher's
musin...
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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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Ecclesiastes 4:1
I. In the fourth chapter Koheleth comes to the conclusion that life is
essentially and irretrievably wretched wretched not because (as he had
formerly thought) it would so soon be ove...
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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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_When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it._
OF REMEMBERING AND KEEPING OUR VOWS
One of the greatest inconveniences to which men are exposed in the
various transactions of life, one of the...
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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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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:1 Fear God, the Holy and
Righteous One. In this section, the encouragement to “fear God” is
motivated by his holy and righteous character (compare note on...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 5:4 People should keep their
promises, or vows, to God. By taking a VOW, a worshiper would promise
to perform a specific act if God would respond favorably to a
parti...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 5:6. BEFORE THE ANGEL] The representative of God in the
Temple, _i.e_., the priest. Or it may be taken literally, as
expressing the early belief of mankind that angels ar...
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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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Deuteronomy 23:21; Genesis 28:20; Genesis 35:1; Genesis 35:3; H
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In fools — In perfidious persons, who, when they are in distress,
make liberal vows, and when the danger is past, break them....