CONTENTS
The Preacher is still following up his favourite discourse of the
vanity of human life, through this chapter. Under various images he
showeth the disappointments of men, by ways of directing the heart to
wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation... [ Continue Reading ]
I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of
the oath of God. (3) Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in
an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. (4) Where the
word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What
doest thou? (5) Whoso keepe... [ Continue Reading ]
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit;
neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge
in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to
it.
It were devoutly to be prayed for, that the very solemn truth
contained in this verse,... [ Continue Reading ]
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is
done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over
another to his own hurt. (10) And so I saw the wicked buried, who had
come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in
the city where they had so don... [ Continue Reading ]
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily,
therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do
evil. (12) Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be
prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear
God, which fear before him: (1... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER! while the preacher is demanding, who is as the wise man? let
us be looking unto Jesus, until that our eyes are enlightened in
beholding him as wisdom itself, the brightness of his Father's glory,
and the express image of his person. And so let our souls look and
gaze upon that f... [ Continue Reading ]