Ecclesiastes 3:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; ”

• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Stones may be regarded either as materials for building, or as impediments to the fertility of land (see 2 Kings 3:19 , 2 Kings 3:25 ; Isaiah 5:2 ).

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  From one point of view this section may be entitled In Praise of Opportunism, from another Human Helplessness. Every action in which man can engage has its allotted season, but who can be sure th...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  to cast away stones: as out of. vineyard. Isaiah 5:2 . Leviticus 14:40 ; Leviticus 14:45 Judges 20:16 ; 1 Kings 15:22 . Lamentations 4:1 . to gather stones together (Compare Ecclesiastes 2...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to cast away stones, - to gather stones, - to embrace, - to refrain -...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  A time to cast away stones— This is differently understood. Calmet says, it may either signify, "a time to cast away stones with a sling, and a time to collect them again into a bag:" or, "A time t...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to cast away stones - as out of a garden or vineyard ( Isaiah...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Practical Ideal. Acceptance of the Universal Scheme 1-15. God is a God of order. The problem which the writer has set himself is not yet solved. He has found that wisdom, culture, pleasure, ar...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Gather stones. — As the collecting of stones for building purposes is included in Ecclesiastes 3:4 , it is thought that what is here referred to is the clearing or marring of land ( Isaiah 5:2 ;...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  And the Conviction that it is opposed to the Will of God as expressed in the Ordinances of his Providence , Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 This is one help to a wise content with our lot; but he has many mo...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The vanity of life under the sun is evidenced not merely in the experience of the preacher himself, but in the wider outlook which he has been able to take. He now gives us some of the results of tha...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: (2) A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; (3) A time to k...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together ,.... To cast stones out of a field or vineyard where they are hurtful, and to gather them together to make walls and fences of, or b...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; Ver. 5. A time to cast away stones. ] As when King Henry VIII pulled down...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  A time to die And as there is a time to die , so there is a time to rise again, a set time, when they that lie in the grave shall be remembered. A time to kill When men die a violent death. A t...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Mutability of Human Affairs.       1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:   2 A...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  A time to cast away stones; which were brought together in order to the building of a wall or house, but are now cast away, either because the man who gathered them hath changed his mind, and desis...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  There is a Time for Everything In Its Place ( Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ). Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ‘To everything there is a fixed season, and a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 3:1 . Season-time.] Season signifies a certain period or term; time denotes a division of time in general. Ecclesiastes 3:2 . A time to plant, &c. ] Used in...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 I. Not only has God made everything, but there is a beauty in this arrangement where all is fortuitous to us, but all is fixed by Him. "He hath made everything beautiful in its...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ecclesiastes 3:1 . To every thing there is a season. The seasons of the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9 ., divides the times into twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the hus...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

  To everything there is a season. Times and seasons in the Church The principle which Solomon asserts, and which is of extreme importance in all matters connected with our practical life in this...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 3:1-21 Section 4. In confirmation of the truth that man's happiness depends upon the will of God, Koheleth proceeds to show how Providence arranges even the minutes...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Dependence of Man Upon the Course of NatuRev. 1. To everything, all that men undertake or do on earth, there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven, under the government a...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 7:5 ; 1 Samuel 21:4 ; 1 Samuel 21:5 ; 2 Kings 3:25 ; 2 Samuel 18:17 ; 2 Samuel 18:18 ; Exodus 19:15 ; Joel 2:16 ; Joshua 10:27 ; Joshua 4:3-9 ; Song of Solomon 2:6 ; Song of...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  What Is Good in This Life Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 ; Ecclesiastes 3:1-14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to the second great question in the Book of Ecclesiastes. It is expressed in Chapter s 6 an...

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• Ecclesiastes 3:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Stones — Which were brought together in order to the building of a wall or house. To embrace — When persons perform all friendly offices one to another.

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