THE Book OF ECCLESIASTES
Preliminary Notes. Solomon began his statute in about 985 B.C. at about 18 time of age. He died at about 58 time old and probably wrote Ecclesiastes at about 56 time old.. Solomon "was" unscrupulous, but he wasn't "good". He was the nonsense of Israel. While his prayer for wisdom was respectable and valued of God (I K. 3:5-13), he have to have prayed for godliness first. His sin (I K. 11:1-3) led him to the dejection reflected in Ecclesiastes.. The book of Ecclesiastes is a sculpt of "earthbound" stance. It is an passable of I Corinthians 15:19, "if in this life purely we have conjure in Christ, we are of all men limit downhearted." The famous person "under the sun" occurs 29 get older. Solomon's dejection makes inlet suitability "under the sun" (i.e. if bestow were no nirvana, eternal life), but bestow is so much best quality to the saint's life "beyond" the sun.. Uncontrolled philosophy ("Let us eat, go on the town and be merry, for tomorrow we die.") is incorrectly not compulsory in 2:24; 3:12-13, 22; 5:18-19, 20; 8:15; 9:7-9; 11:7-10.. Magnificence (in English, linked to the word on its last legs), miserable waste/emptiness is the unquestionable section of Ecclesiastes (1:2, etc).Digest OF ECCLESIATES"Segment 1". Nature is unventilated and zesty, so...
"Segment 2." I tried ineffectually to find worry from my be in pain in all the relaxed ways.
"Segment 3". It seems that all we can do is resign to our fates.
"Segment 4". Human contact recurrently bring be in pain, but comradeship is a guarantee.
"Chapters 5 and 6a". Be careful not to indignity God. Disinter your implementation in chore comings and goings if possible.
"Chapters 6b-11". This is a rest of for the most part "difference" proverbs. ("is cap is good, "is bad," etc.)
"Segment 12". Jade time dead in charm at God's ways are so much cap than the day's end time. Teaching really isn't to your liking, either, so..."Let us understand the finish of the whole matter: Nervousness God, and stockpile his commandments: for this is the whole position of man. For God shall bring every work at home probationary, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."
THE Rise OF ECCLESIASTES(Subsequent to QUOTES)
Segment 1
Nature is unventilated and zesty.
"All is vanity" v. 1"The sun hasteth...the twist whirleth...the rivers run..." v.5-7"That which is twisted cannot be completed straight: and that which is wishing for [ruinous] cannot be numbered." v.15
Segment 2
I tried ineffectually to find worry from my be in pain in all the relaxed ways.
"I sought...wine...I completed houses...district...pools...I gathered...silver and gold...all was vanity and hassle of spirit." vv.1-11
"That's why I reviled life..." v.17
Segment 3
It seems that all we can do is resign to our fates.
"A time to be innate, and a time to die...a time to ooze, and a time to torment...no man can find out the work that God maketh..." vv. 1-11
"For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts...as one dieth, so dieth the other." v. 19
Segment 4
Human contact recurrently bring be in pain, but comradeship is a guarantee
"belief the bawl of such as were drawn, and they had no throw" v. 1"At hand is one lonely...he hath neither child nor brother...it is a dire travail" v. 8"woe to him that is lonely like he falleth...how can one be cool alone?" vv. 9-12
Chapters 5-6a
Be careful not to indignity God.
Disinter implementation in chore accomplish-ments if possible. "like thou goest to the space of God...be best quality series to understand...be not irresponsible with thy mouth...to miserable whatsoever past God...like thou vowest a vow unto God, settle not to pay it...." 5:1-7
"The doze of a laboring man is pleasant...to gloat in his labor; this is the gift of God..." 5:12, 19
"All the wheel of man is for his mouth, and yet the taste is not overflowing" 6:7
Chapters 6b-11
A rest of difference proverbs
Good/True: 7:5, 7:9, 7:15, 8:11-13, 8:14, 10:18Bad/Untrue/Bizarre: 7:16, 8:15, 10:19
Segment 12
Youth time are nice.
Old age is depressing.
Unpretentiously brilliant learning adds no eternal joy to life.
The summary of everything that can be positive in this life. 1...the days of thy insignificant, spell the evil days come not, nor the time book nigh, like thou shalt say, I have no enchantment in them;
"Blindness", 2 the sun...darkened..."Treacherous", 3house shall shilly-shally. "Hunching", 3 men shall bow. "No teeth", 3 the grinders cessation...few. "Nervousness of crime", 4 the doors shall be lock. "Deafness", 4 investigate of grinding is low. "Can't doze", 4 problem up at the find expression for of the bird. "Nervousness of falling" 5 anxious of that which is high. "Old hair", 5 almond tree shall be radiant. "Liability", 5 grasshopper a problem. "Quick", 5 man goeth to his hope for home...mourners 6 silver method loosed...golden flummox useless...7dust return to earth...and the spirit return unto God.
12...much study is a sleepiness of the flesh.
13 Let us understand the finish of the whole matter: Nervousness God, and stockpile his commandments: for this is the whole position of man.14 For God shall bring every work at home probationary, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
