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Verse 27. COUNTING _ONE BY ONE_] I have gone over every particular. I
have compared one thing with another; man with woman, his wisdom with
her wiles; his strength with her blandishments; his influen...
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PART II. CHAPTER S 7-12
1. The Good Advice of the Natural Man, Discouragement and Failure
CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The better things (Ecclesiastes 7:1)_
2. The anomalies (Ecclesiastes 7:15)
3. The strength...
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IN DISPRAISE OF WOMEN. All the foregoing maxims have been tested, yet
Qoheleth has not attained wisdom (Ecclesiastes 7:23); the true
inwardness of things, the ultimate reality, is beyond his efforts
...
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PROVERBS AND REFLECTIONS. After asking, What is good for man in life?
(Ecclesiastes 6:12), Qoheleth gives us advice as to what a man may do
by way of mitigating his worries. First of all it is advisab...
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COUNTING, &C. Or, supply the Ellipsis thus: "[considering women] one
by one", &c.
ACCOUNT. result....
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_saith the Preacher_ The passage is remarkable as being the solitary
instance in the book in which the name _Koheleth_, feminine in form,
yet elsewhere treated as masculine, is joined with the feminin...
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BEHOLD, THIS HAVE I FOUND, &C.— _Behold, this have I found_ (_saith
the orator_), _examining them one by one, to find out the reason of
it:_ Ecclesiastes 7:28. _Which my soul seeketh still, without be...
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2. Through intensive study, one comes to see the potential within men
and women to do evil. Ecclesiastes 7:25-28
TEXT 7:25-28
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I directed my mind to know, to investigate, and to seek wisdom and a...
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Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one,
to find out the account:
THIS HAVE I FOUND - namely, what is stated in the previous part of
the book (cf. , "All this"), and sum...
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PRACTICAL APHORISMS
1-6. Things useful to remember in life. The writer has just warned as
that we cannot rely on either the present or the future. We can,
however, guide ourselves in the conduct of l...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 7
The Teacher does not continue to ask questions. Instead, he uses many
special sent...
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רְאֵה֙ זֶ֣ה מָצָ֔אתִי אָמְרָ֖ה
קֹהֶ֑לֶת אַחַ֥ת...
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THIRD SECTION
The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean
Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:1, and Ecclesiastes 8:1
IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown that the C
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The preacher now proceeded to the inculcation of indifference toward
all the facts of life as the only attitude which is in the least
likely to be satisfactory. This he did, first, by a series of maxi...
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Her. He speaks by experience, (St. Jerome) as none perhaps ever fell
more terribly victims of impure love. (Calmet) --- Though a plurality
of wives was then permitted, Solomon did wrong in marrying st...
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Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy
servant curse thee: (22) For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth
that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. (23) All this h...
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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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BEHOLD, THIS HAVE I FOUND,.... That a harlot is more bitter than
death; and which he found by his own experience, and therefore would
have it observed by others for their caution: or one man among a
t...
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_Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, [counting] one by one,
to find out the account:_
Ver. 27. _Behold, this I have found._] Eυρηκα, Eυρηκα, ‘I
have found it, I have found it,' said the ph...
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_Behold, saith the preacher_ Or, _the penitent_, who speaks what he
hath learned, both by deep study and costly experience; _this have I
found_ And it is a strange thing, and worthy of your serious
ob...
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Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, this is the result of
his experiences, COUNTING ONE BY ONE, comparing one thing with
another, TO FIND OUT THE ACCOUNT, to reach a definite conclusion;...
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A SPIRIT OF SORROW OVER SIN AND ITS ALLUREMENTS...
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COUNTING ONE BY ONE TO FIND OUT THE ACCOUNT:
Or, weighing one thing after another to find out the reason...
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"BEHOLD,. HAVE DISCOVERED THIS," SAYS THE PREACHER, "ADDING ONE THING
TO ANOTHER TO FIND AN EXPLANATION,"
Solomon was. very detailed and logical thinker. He weighed one point
against another point, a...
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23-29 Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things,
had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He
alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape;...
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BEHOLD; it is a strange thing, and worthy of your serious observation.
THE PREACHER; or, _the penitent_, who speaks what he hath learned,
both by deep, study and costly experience. COUNTING ONE BY ONE...
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Ecclesiastes 7:27 Here H7200 (H8798) found H4672 (H8804) says H559
(H8804) Preacher H6953 one H259 other...
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HIS SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING RESULTING FROM HIS WISDOM HAS MADE HIM
AWARE OF MAN'S SINFULNESS AND FOLLY (ECCLESIASTES 7:23).
Ecclesiastes 7:23
‘All this I have tested out in wisdom. I said, “I will b...
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CHAPTER 7 IT IS GOOD TO BE AWARE OF DEATH, TO LISTEN TO REBUKE, TO
BEHAVE WISELY, EVEN THOUGH LIFE IS UNFAIR. BUT THE WORLD IS FULL OF
WICKEDNESS.
The emphasis of the book from now on includes the tho...
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Ecclesiastes 7:19-8
Koheleth seems to have had a suspicion all the time that his view of
life was a low one. He intimates that he had tried for a better, but
failed to reach it: "I said, I will be wis...
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Ecclesiastes 7 and ECCLESIASTES 8:1
I. The endeavour to secure a competence may be not lawful only, but
most laudable, since God means us to make the best of the capacities
He has given us and the opp...
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CONTENTS: Prudence recommended as a means of avoiding much of the
vanity and vexation of the world.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: The best way to save ourselves from the vexation which the
v...
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Ecclesiastes 7:1. _A good name is better than precious ointment._
Shem, a name; shemen, ointment. The reference is to the embalming of
bodies with ointment. See Genesis 48. Wisdom and virtue outlive t...
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COUNT ING ONE BY ΟNE
Counting one by one. Ecclesiastes 7:27 (AV).
That is one of the first things we learn to do, isn't it? While we are
little more than babies, before we know our alphabet or can r...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 7:25 The Heart of the Problem:
Sin. The Preacher has made numerous references to human sinfulness.
This short section helps to explain how this sorry condition came
a...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 7:27 “Find” is a key word in
vv. Ecclesiastes 7:25. It means “figure out” or “comprehend.”...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 7:27. COUNTING ONE BY ONE, TO FIND OUT THE ACCOUNT]
Collecting the results of many observations—thus forming an opinion
carefully and slowly.
ECCLESIASTES 7:29. MANY INV...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 7:1
Ecclesiastes 12:8.—Division II. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED
EXPERIENCES IN THE
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Tonight we want to return again to the book of Ecclesiastes beginning
with chapter 7. And as we return to the book of Ecclesiastes, again,
it is important that we make note of the fact that the book o...
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Ecclesiastes 1:1; Ecclesiastes 1:2; Ecclesiastes 12:8; Ecclesiastes
7:25...
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To find — That I might make a true and just estimate....