Category: Religion/Spirituality
which look like evil ones, and on this Koheleth develops the thought that man does not know a good thing when he sees it. He shows that even wisdom itself will not necessarily produce happiness in this world, though this, he is sure, is a good thing; but he is very bitter and...
which look like evil ones, and on this Koheleth develops the thought that man does not know a good thing when he sees it. He shows that even wisdom itself will not necessarily p...
2. ii. 9 is too evidently foisted in from the margin to make it of muchHolding as I do the paramount authority of the LXX., I have not scrupled to follow them against the Masoretic interpretation when the sense of a passage seemed to require it, an...
3. CHAPTER I.I. (1.) =The words of Koheleth, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.= The meaning of the term Koheleth, and the question of authorship of the book, is discussed in the introduct...
4. chapter ii. 3, and iii. 1, and is of larger import than under thesun) =it is= (‘I mean that’ is the equivalent expression in English) =uncertainty= (ענין, this is another technical word, it occurs eight times, chapter i. 13, ii. 23, 26, iii....
5. viii. 5, whence it appears that the precise meaning is moral obliquity)=not enabled to be set in order= (occurs chapter i. 15, vii. 18, xii. 9, only), =a defect= (occurs here only, but see Deuteronomy xxviii. 48, 57, where the root is used of famin...
6. chapter vii. 7, Isaiah xliv. 25; and the participle at chapter ii. 2,Psalm cii. 89. Thus we see the connexion between this sense and the more ordinary one of ‘praise;’ it is the ‘bepraised’ used in a bad sense. The word שכלות occurs here only, bu...
7. CHAPTER II.I SAID in mine heart, Go │ SAID then I in my heart, to now, I will prove thee │ Come now, I will try thee with with mirth, therefore enjoy │ mirth, and so get a sight of a pleas...
8. chapter i. 17), and =to pleasure= (or mirth), =What doth that do?= (asthis expects the answer No, it is very nearly equivalent to ‘It _does_ nothing.’) (The Syriac reads here (‡ Syriac), ‘What is the usefulness,’ ‘gratification,’ or ‘delight’? It...
9. CHAPTER III.III. At this point Koheleth commences another line of argument; he notices that all things proceed according to a fixed and settled order of providence. This truth he brings int...
10. CHAPTER IV.SO I returned, and │ BUT to return: I am observing considered all the oppressions │ this with regard to all those that are done under the sun: │ afflictions which happen and beh...
11. CHAPTER V.│ SECTION IV.――_Practical │ aphorisms grounded on the │ foregoing._ │ KEEP thy foot when thou │ GUARD thou thy steps as one goest to the house of God, and │ who art walking to t...
12. xvi. 13; it has been proposed to read כלעמת, in which case the meaningwill be as in the above――‘precisely as,’ LXX. ὥσπερ γὰρ, but this is to a certain extent to cut the knot rather than untie it. Now עמת occurs separately here only, and if עמת re...
13. CHAPTER VI.THERE is an evil which I │ THERE is another evil which I have seen under the sun, and │ have observed in this work-day it _is_ common among men: │ world, and a common one is it...
14. CHAPTER VII.│ SECTION IV. _continued.―― │ Providential Paradoxes leading │ up to the conclusion, Fear God._ │ A GOOD name _is_ better than │ (1.) GOOD is a name, (2.) good precious ointment...
15. chapter ii. 2, which we have seen is the madness of false expectation)=a wise man= (hence the meaning must be, that the oppressions or afflictions of life put out the calculations of the wise, and make their expectation false) =and destroys with r...
16. chapter ix. 12, Isaiah xxix. 7, Ezekiel xix. 9, and with shurek at Jobxix. 6; there is a slight difference in meaning in these forms) =and allurements= (the root חרם is to destroy, and the noun signifies ‘a cursed thing’ as often as a ‘net;’ see D...
17. CHAPTER VIII.WHO _is_ as the wise _man_? │ AH, then, who is really wise, and who knoweth the │ and who knows how to solve the interpretation of a thing? a │ enigma of this matter? that man’s...
18. CHAPTER IX.FOR all this ¹I considered │ FOR with respect to all this, in my heart even to declare │ I have laid to my heart that all this, that the righteous, │ which is to be deduced from...
19. CHAPTER X.DEAD ¹flies cause the │ ONE of a swarm of blow-flies ointment of the apothecary to │ tainting corrupts the send forth a stinking savour: │ confectioner’s conserve, and _so doth_...
20. chapter vii. 1) =of the apothecary. Precious more than wisdom more thanhonour= (_i.e._ and _more_ than honour also), =follies= (but observe סכלות, elaborate follies or false prudence, chapter ii. 3), =a little= (distributive singular, one out of...
21. i. 10, 11, 12 only, and always with this meaning: all the ancientversions follow the idea contained in the LXX.’s συνείδησις, which would seem to give the notion that this curse was a reasonable, not a hasty one) =a king= (not the king, any k...
22. CHAPTER XI.CAST thy bread ¹upon the │ CAST thy bread on the face waters: for thou shalt find it │ of the waters: for in the after many days. │ multitude of the days――thou │ wilt find it. ¹...
23. CHAPTER XII.REMEMBER now thy Creator in │ But remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while │ the days of thy choice youth, the evil days come not, nor │ while these evil days come n...
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