“ Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. ”
Vanity - This word הבל hebel , or, when used as a proper name, in Genesis 4:2 , “Abel”, occurs no less than 37 times in Ecclesiastes, and has been called the key of the book. Primarily it mea...
(b) Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity. (b) He condemns the opinions of all men who set happiness in anything but in God alone, seeing that in this world all...
Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 may be called an introduction to the book; it also presents the writer's conclusions. He has surveyed life from many angles and decided that all human effort is fruitless and...
Vanity of vanities. Figure of speech Polyptoton. Note also the Figure of speech Epanadiplosis (App-6), by which Ecclesiastes 1:2 begins and ends with the same word. These Figures are used for...
DISCOURSE: 827 THE VANITY OF THE CREATURE Ecclesiastes 1:2 . Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity . IF experience entitles a man to credit, and gives weight...
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Vanity of vanities - As the words are an exclamation, it would be better to translate, O vanity of vanities! Emptiness of...
Vanity of vanities— Vanity of vanities, according to the Hebrew idiom, signifies, the greatest vanity. The original word הבל hebel, signifies, properly, steam or vapour, and is used to de...
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. The theme proposed of the first part of his discourse. Vanity of vanities - Hebraism for the most utter vanity. S...
All is Vanity 1-11. The writer describes himself. He declares that all things are transitory and without result, whether they be the works or the life of man, or the natural forces of heat, air, a...
Vanity of vanities. — This verse strikes the key-note of the whole work. In using this expression we mean to indicate the opinion that the unity of the book is rather that of a musical composition...
THE PROLOGUE In Which The Problem Of The Book Is Indirectly Stated Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 THE search for the summum bonum , the quest of the Chief Good, is the theme of the book Ecclesiastes. N...
the Testimony of an Unsatisfied Soul Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 All is vanity ! This cry finds an echo in human hearts of every age and clime. Clod meant man to be happy. “These things,” said our Lo...
The first verse of this chapter introduces us to the author of the Book. Taken in conjunction with verse Ecclesiastes 1:12 , it leaves no room for doubt that he is Solomon. In stating his theme he e...
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. This may be considered as the one text of Solomon's whole discourse. He takes this for his subject; and all that follows is...
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher ,.... This is the preacher's text; the theme and subject he after enlarges upon, and proves by an induction of particulars; it is the sum of the whole book;...
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity. Ver. 2. Vanity of vanities. ] Or, Most vain vanity: therefore, no happiness here to be had but in the reverential fear...
Vanity , &c. Not only vain , but vanity in the abstract, which denotes extreme vanity. Saith the Preacher Upon deep consideration and long experience, and by divine inspiration. This verse...
The Vanity of the World. 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, sait...
Vanity of vanities; not only vain, but vanity in the abstract, which notes extreme vanity, especially where the word is thus doubled; as a king of kings is the chief of kings, and a servant of se...
Chapter 1 The Vainness and Meaninglessness of Life. All Is Vanity ( Ecclesiastes 1:1-3 ). Ecclesiastes 1:1 ‘The words of the preacher (Qoheleth - assembly leader), the son of David, king in Je...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 1:2 . Vanity.] The Hebrew word is Hebel (Abel) the name given to one of the sons of Adam. The subjection of the whole creation to vanity was soon observed and felt....
Vanity "Vanity," in Ecclesiastes, and usually in Scripture, means, not foolish pride, but the emptiness in final result of all life apart from God. It is to be born, to toil, to suffer, to exp...
Ecclesiastes 1:1-2 The book of Ecclesiastes is a dramatic biography, in which Solomon not only records, but re-enacts, the successive scenes of his search after happiness, a descriptive memoir, in...
Ecclesiastes 1:2 . Vanity of vanities. This is the Hebrew form of the superlative degree of comparison; as, the heaven of heavens, the song of songs, &c. He adds, “vexation of spirit,” because...
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity The Vanity of the world Certainly, he, who had riches as plentiful as the stones of the street ( 1 Kings 10:27 ), and...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 1:1 THE TITLE . The words of the Preacher, the son of David, King in Jerusalem ; Septuagint, "King of Israel in Jerusalem" (comp. Ecclesiastes 1:12 Ecclesiast...
General Introduction
Ecclesiastes 11:10 ; Ecclesiastes 11:8 ; Ecclesiastes 12:8 ; Ecclesiastes 3:19 ; Ecclesiastes 4:16 ; Ecclesiastes 4:4 ; Ecclesiastes 4:8 ; Ecclesiastes 5:10 ; Ecclesiastes 6:11 ; Psalms 144...
The Man under the Sun Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In order to introduce this study we can think of no better way than to go to our booklet on Ecclesiastes for a quotation. 1. Eccl...
Vanity — Not only vain, but vanity in the abstract, which denotes extreme vanity. Saith — Upon deep consideration and long experience, and by Divine inspiration. This verse contains the general pro...