“ Cast thy bread upona the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. ”
The verse means: “Show hospitality, even though the corresponding return of hospitality to you may seem improbable; nevertheless, be hospitable in faith.” Compare Luke 14:13-14 ; Hebrews 13:2 . S...
Cast thy bread upon the (a) waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. (a) That is, be liberal to the poor, and though it seems to be as a thing ventured on the sea, yet it will bring you profi...
Ecclesiastes 11:1 to Ecclesiastes 12:8 . Closing Counsels. It is well to do and to get all one can, in the way of industry and pleasure, before old age draws on. Ecclesiastes 11:1 and Ecclesi...
bread. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), App-6, for the seed from which it is produced. upon . upon the surface of. it . the profit or result of it.
DISCOURSE: 844 LIBERALITY ENCOURAGED Ecclesiastes 11:1 . Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days . WHILST, in the purity of its precepts, the inspired volume exce...
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Cast thy bread upon the waters - An allusion to the sowing of rice; which was sown upon muddy ground, or ground covered with wa...
Cast thy bread upon the waters— Cast thy corn before the waters, for thou shalt find it, &c. Desvoex observes, the true design of this verse is so plainly pointed out by the context, that int...
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Bread - bread-corn. As in the Lord's prayer, all things needful for the body and soul. Solomon reverts to the sentiment...
Cast thy bread, etc.] show kindness, even where a return is least to be expected. A blessing in some sort, although it may be long delayed, will result. There is perhaps a reference to the sowing o...
XI . (1) In this section the preacher is drawing to a close, and he brings out practical lessons very different from those which views of life like his have suggested to others. From the uncertaint...
But in a wise Use and a wise Enjoyment of the Present Life , Ecclesiastes 11:1-8 What that Good is, and where it may be found, the Preacher now proceeds to show. But, as his manner is, he does n...
Live not for Today Alone Ecclesiastes 11:1-10 The casting of bread upon the waters is an allusion to the oriental custom of casting rice-grains on the fields, when they lie submerged beneath th...
The method of worldly wisdom is not that of discretion only; it is, moreover, that of diligence, and this passage urges such diligence. Again, we have taken more than one text out of this passage to...
CONTENTS The Preacher, now drawing, nigh to the close of his sermon; is here laying down certain rules for the regulation of the conduct, which under grace, may tend to lessen human vanity, and soft...
UNPROMISING WORK ‘Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.’ Ecclesiastes 11:1 I. The text teaches the lesson of obedience to present duty and of patience as t...
Cast thy bread upon the waters ,.... As the wise man had often suggested that nothing was better for a man than to enjoy the good of his labour himself, he here advises to let others, the poor, have...
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Ver. 1. Cast thy bread. ] Thine own well gotten goods. Alms must not be given, said a martyr, a until it have sweat in a...
Cast thy bread That is, thy seed, which is here called bread, as it is also Job 28:5 , and Isaiah 28:28 , because the produce of it makes bread, and the husbandman could ill spare it, wanting it,...
The Obligations to Be Liberal; Answers to Objections against Liberality. 1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou...
ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 11 Liberality to the poor commanded. We know not what we may come to: God giveth rain plentifully; and our time of doing good is short: not too much regarding difficulties: the...
Chapter Ecclesiastes 11:1-8 Advice From The Wise Man To The Wise. Central to these verses is the recognition of our ignorance. We do not know what will happen when we do things, we do not know w...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 11:1 . Cast thy bread upon the waters.] “Bread,” rendered in Isaiah 28:28 , “bread corn.” It has been supposed that there is an allusion to the manner of sowing the...
Ecclesiastes 11:1 This text is generally regarded as an exhortation to charity, in that restricted sense of the word in which it is equivalent to almsgiving. But it is plainly capable of a far wid...
Ecclesiastes 11:1 . Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Hoard not thy bread; for if thou dost, it will mildew, it will be of no use to thee. Cast it on the wat...
Ecclesiastes 11:1 . Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days. The root לחם lechem, designates bread, corn, and all kinds of meat which sustain life. It refers also...
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days. Cast thy bread upon the waters This saying takes us to the banks of the Nile, where, every year, as the flood subsided, w...
EXPOSITION Approaching the end of his treatise, Koheleth, in view of apparent anomalies in God's moral government, and the difficulties that meet man in his social and political relations, proce...
Cast thy bread upon the waters, in practicing benevolence freely, without the hope of profit or immediate return, Matthew 5:46-47 ; Luke 6:35-38 ; for thou shalt find it after many days, God will...
2 Corinthians 9:6 ; Deuteronomy 15:10 ; Deuteronomy 15:7-11 ; Ecclesiastes 11:6 ; Galatians 6:8-10 ; Hebrews 6:10 ; Isaiah 32:20 ; Isaiah 32:8 ; Luke 14:14 ; Matthew 10:13 ; Matthew 10:42...
The waters — Freely and liberally bestow it upon the waters; upon those poor creatures, on whom it may seem to be as utterly lost, as the seed which a man casts into the sea or river. Find it — It...