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Verse Ecclesiastes 3:12. _I KNOW THAT_ THERE IS _NO GOOD IN THEM, BUT,
C._] Since God has so disposed the affairs of this world, that the
great events of providence cannot be accelerated or retarded b...
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IN THEM - i. e., in the sons of men.
TO DO GOOD - In a moral sense. Physical enjoyment is referred to in
Ecclesiastes 3:13....
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2. FURTHER RESULTS OF THE SEARCH
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The times of man under the sun (Ecclesiastes 3:1)_
2. When then is the good? (Ecclesiastes 3:12)
3. Concerning judgment and the future (Ecclesiastes...
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From one point of view this section may be entitled _In Praise of
Opportunism,_ from another _Human Helplessness._ Every action in which
man can engage has its allotted season, but who can be sure tha...
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IN THEM: i.e. in God's works.
IN. during....
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_for a man to rejoice, and to do good_ There is no instance in O. T.
language of the phrase "do good" being used, like the Greek εὖ
πράττειν, in the sense of "prospering," or "enjoying one's
self," an...
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2. Working outside the framework of God's providence results in
frustration and defeat. Ecclesiastes 3:9-22
TEXT 3:9-22
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What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?
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I have...
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I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and
to do good in his life.
I KNOW THAT (THERE IS) NO GOOD IN THEM. Man can get no good in God's
works except by rejoicing in his sha...
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THE PRACTICAL IDEAL. ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNIVERSAL SCHEME
1-15. God is a God of order. The problem which the writer has set
himself is not yet solved. He has found that wisdom, culture,
pleasure, are a...
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 3
A POEM ABOUT TIME – ECCLESIASTES 3:1-8
V1 Everything has its proper time.
There i...
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I KNOW. — Literally, _I knew: i.e.,_ I came to know. The writer is
relating the conclusions at which he successively arrived.
TO DO GOOD. — This phrase is always used elsewhere in a moral sense:
“to...
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יָדַ֕עְתִּי כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין טֹ֖וב בָּ֑ם
כִּ֣י אִם ־לִ שְׂמֹ֔וחַ וְ לַ עֲשֹׂ֥ות
טֹ֖וב בְּ...
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THE QUEST OBSTRUCTED BY DIVINE ORDINANCES.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
The time of birth, for instance, and the time of death, are ordained
by a Power over which men have no control; they begin to be, and they...
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The vanity of life under the sun is evidenced not merely in the
experience of the preacher himself, but in the wider outlook which he
has been able to take. He now gives us some of the results of that...
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_Well; virtuously: or, perhaps, as literally, to enjoy himself, ver.
13. (Calmet) --- Thus thinks the man of pleasure, Isaias xxii. 31.
(St. Jerome)_...
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What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? (10) I
have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be
exercised in it. (11) He hath made everything beautiful in hi...
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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 KNOW THAT [THERE IS] NO GOOD IN THEM,.... In these things; as the
Arabic version; in the creatures, as Jarchi; in all sublunary
enjoyments; in everything the wise man had made a trial of before, as...
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I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice,
and to do good in his life.
Ver. 12. _I know that there is no good in them,_] _i.e., _ No other
good, but for a man to rejoice and...
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_I know_ By clear reason, and my own long and certain experience;
_that there is no good in them_ No other satisfaction or felicity that
a man can enjoy in creatures or worldly things; _but for a man...
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I know that there is no good in them, in the works of God given to
men, BUT FOR A MAN TO REJOICE, in a cheerful use of the blessings of
the Lord, AND TO DO GOOD IN HIS LIFE, to himself and to others i...
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"I KNOW THAT THERE IS NOTHING BETTER FOR THEM THAN TO REJOICE AND TO
DO GOOD IN ONE'S LIFETIME;"
Since the events in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 aren't eternal, then we need to
appreciate them. So often we ar...
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11-15 Every thing is as God made it; not as it appears to us. We have
the world so much in our hearts, are so taken up with thoughts and
cares of worldly things, that we have neither time nor spirit t...
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I KNOW, by clear reason, and my own long and certain experience, THAT
THERE IS NO GOOD, no other satisfaction or felicity which a man can
enjoy, in them, in creatures or worldly enjoyments. _To do goo...
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Ecclesiastes 3:12 know H3045 (H8804) better H2896 rejoice H8055
(H8800) do H6213 (H8800) good H2896 lives H2416
but - Ecclesiastes 3:22, Ecclesiastes 9:7-9; Deuteronomy 28:63; Psalms
37:3
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GOD HAS GIVEN MAN A CONCEPTION OF EVERLASTINGNESS.
Here he provides something extra to what God has given men to do.
While man has to work so hard, nevertheless God has made everything
beautiful in i...
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Ecclesiastes 3:1
I. Not only has God made everything, but there is a beauty in this
arrangement where all is fortuitous to us, but all is fixed by Him.
"He hath made everything beautiful in its time,...
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CONTENTS: The mutability of all human affairs and the unchangeableness
and unsearchableness of the divine counsels.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: We live in a world of changes. The events of...
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Ecclesiastes 3:1. _To every thing there is a season._ The seasons of
the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9., divides the times into
twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the husbandm...
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_I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and
to do good in his life._
DOING GOOD AND REJOICING
Solomon proposes two things to our practice, if we intend to live
happily and co...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 3:9 Fear God, the Sovereign One.
The vanity of life causes the Preacher to reflect on what is permanent
and lasting: the sovereign God of the universe.
⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var ima...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 3:12. FOR WHO KNOWETH THE SPIRIT OF MAN THAT GOETH
UPWARD.] Man has no distinct and certain knowledge of his own future
destiny, or of that of other forms of life. The s...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 3:1
Section 4. In confirmation of the truth that man's happiness depends
upon the will of God, Koheleth proceeds to show how _Providence
arranges even the minutest concerns;...
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Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used
poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and
it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was
mono...
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1 Thessalonians 5:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:16; 1 Timothy 6:18; Acts
20:35; Deuteronomy 28:63; Ecclesiastes 3:22; Ecclesiastes 9:7; Isaiah
64:5; Luke 11:41;...
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WHAT IS GOOD IN THIS LIFE
Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We come now to the second great question in the Book of Ecclesiastes.
It is expressed in Chapter s 6 and 12: "Who kn...
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Them — In creatures or worldly enjoyments. To do good — To employ
them in acts of charity and liberality....