CONTENTS
The Preacher here enters upon a view of sacred worship in the house of
God. He shows that all service void of spiritual worship is vanity.
This is followed with similar observations, tending to prove that
whatever men place their confidence in the world, terminates in
disappointment.... [ Continue Reading ]
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready
to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not
that they do evil. (2) Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine
heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and
thou upon earth: theref... [ Continue Reading ]
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 that
which thou hast vowed. (5) Better is it that thou shouldest not vow,
than that thou shouldest... [ Continue Reading ]
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 than
they. (9) Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king
himself is served by the field.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
MY soul! are all things here below empty and unsatisfying: and is
there a rest that remaineth for the people of God? And wilt thou not,
then, after such repeated convictions as these scriptures afford of
human vanity and human disappointment, be prompted, like the
Patriarchs to seek a Ci... [ Continue Reading ]