12/18/2022 0 Comments Dakes bible chaptersThou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.Īll thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? Let us learn to hate and fear sin, the cause of all this vanity and misery to value Christ to seek rest in the knowledge, love, and service of the Saviour.The burden of the valley of vision. Even the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom discovered man's wickedness and misery so that the more he knew, the more he saw cause to lament and mourn. He could neither gain that satisfaction to himself, nor do that good to others, which he expected. The more he saw of the works done under the sun, the more he saw their vanity and the sight often vexed his spirit. He found his searches after knowledge weariness, not only to the flesh, but to the mind. Solomon tried all things, and found them vanity. How many things and persons in Solomon's day were thought very great, yet there is no remembrance of them now! Commentary on Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 This should take us from expecting happiness in the creature, and quicken us to seek eternal blessings. Men's hearts and their corruptions are the same now as in former times their desires, and pursuits, and complaints, still the same. The senses are soon tired, yet still craving what is untried. His soul will find no rest, if he has it not from God. Man, after all his labour, is no nearer finding rest than the sun, the wind, or the current of the river. What profit has a man of all his labour? All he gets by it will not supply the wants of the soul, nor satisfy its desires will not atone for the sins of the soul, nor hinder the loss of it: what profit will the wealth of the world be to the soul in death, in judgment, or in the everlasting state? Commentary on Ecclesiastes 1:4-8Īll things change, and never rest. If this world, in its present state, were all, it would not be worth living for and the wealth and pleasure of this world, if we had ever so much, are not enough to make us happy. This is the text of the preacher's sermon, of which in this book he never loses sight. He does not merely say all things are vain, but that they are vanity. Those that have taken warning to turn and live, should warn others not to go on and die. We here behold Solomon returning from the broken and empty cisterns of the world, to the Fountain of living water recording his own folly and shame, the bitterness of his disappointment, and the lessons he had learned. Much is to be learned by comparing one part of Scripture with another. ![]() (9-11) The vexation in pursuit of knowledge. (1-3) Man's toil and want of satisfaction. Solomon shows that all human things are vain.
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