“ Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. ”
Sinner - The word in the original indicates intellectual as well as moral error.
DISCOURSE: 843 THE DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE OF SINNERS Ecclesiastes 9:18 . One sinner destroyeth much good . THE influence of every man in his sphere is considerable. Solomon had seen a remarkable...
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. Wisdom is better than weapons of war - So proved in the case of Archimedes. But one sinner - Such as the Roman butcher ab...
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. One sinner ... - as Achan ( Joshua 7:1 ; Joshua 7:11-12 ). Though wisdom excels folly, and strengthens more than we...
Live Worthily While You May 1-3. The future is in God's hands. Good and bad alike must die.
Nor in Devotion to Affairs and its Rewards. Ecclesiastes 9:13-18 ; Ecclesiastes 10:1-20 So far, then, Coheleth has been occupied in retracing the argument of the first Section of the Book. Now...
In view of the evidences of the truth of the affirmation, "vanity... all is vanity," the preacher now turns to its effect on the mind of the man living "under the sun." He extols this worldly wisdom,...
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. (17) The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that r...
THE SAVIOUR OF THE CITY ‘There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it,’ etc. Ecclesiastes 9:14-18...
Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war ,.... And does what they cannot do; of which the wisdom of the poor wise man is a full proof, which delivered the city from a potent prince, when weapons of wa...
Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. Ver. 18. Wisdom is better than weapons of war. ] As David found it in his encounter with Goliath, Gideon in his strat...
The Advantages of Wisdom. 13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: 14 There was...
Than weapons of war; than armed power. Sinner; a wicked fool; by which expression and opposition of a sinner to a wise man he gives us a key to understand his meaning in divers places of his book...
Chapter 9 The Same Things Happen to All Whether They Be Righteous, Wise Or Sons of Men. And In The End All Die In The Same Way. So Let The Righteous Live Life As They May And Enjoy It For God Has Ac...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 9:13 . This wisdom.] The special instance of the power of wisdom related in the next verse. Ecclesiastes 9:14 . Few men within it.] Not a city with a scanty pop...
Ecclesiastes 8:16-10 I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth points out that it is impossible for us to construct a satisfactory policy of life. "The work of God," or...
Ecclesiastes 9:5 . The dead know not any thing. This is explained by the next phrase, the memory of them is forgotten. Elijah went up to heaven, or paradise, as the Jews will have it. John 3:13...
There was a little city, and few men within it. The little city and the poor wise man The little city, as first introduced to our notice, is in sore straits. The legion of the foe seem innumera...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 9:1-21 One fate happens to all, and the dead are cut off from all the feelings and interests of life in the upper world. Ecclesiastes 9:1 This continues the su...
Wisdom Still to be Sought
1 Samuel 14:28 ; 1 Samuel 14:29 ; 1 Samuel 14:36-46 ; 2 Samuel 20:1 ; 2 Samuel 20:2 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 ; 2 Timothy 2:16-18 ; 2 Timothy 3:8 ; 2 Timothy 4:3 ; 2 Timothy 4:4 ; Ecclesias...