1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 1:2
The spectacle of a prosperous man whose condition is rendered vain by his brotherless, childless isolation. Ecclesiastes 4:8 A second - Any...
Ecclesiastes 4. A Gloomy Survey. The chapter falls into four parts, which treat respectively of oppression ( Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 ), rivalry ( Eccles...
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone ?
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? If two lie together ... they have heat - ( 1 Kings 1:4 .) The...
Vicissitudes of Life. 'Oh, the pity of it!' 1-3. The mass of human suffering and the absence of pity are such that better off are the dead and sti...
Two more ills of life are covetousness aria loneliness.
They have heat. — The nights in Palestine were often very cold, and it would seem ( Exodus 22:26 ) that it was common to sleep without any cover bu...
SECOND SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of Business Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20 I. IF the true Good i...
And by Human Injustice and Perversity. Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 ; Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 But not only are our endeavours to find the "good" of our la...
Yet these are capable of a nobler Motive and Mode. Ecclesiastes 4:9-16 Now a jealous rivalry culminating in mere avarice, -that surely is not t...
From this general survey the preacher returned to examine the condition of the beings whom he had described as being no better than the beasts. He lo...
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. (10) For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him tha...
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat ,.... The Targum adds, in the winter; when it is a cold season, they warm one another by lying toget...
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]? Ver. 11. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat. ] Heat...
For, if they fall If one or more of them fall in any way; as into any mistakes, and errors, or sins, dangers, or distresses. The one will lift up...
The Vanity of Human Wishes. 7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under...
They have heat; they will be sooner warm in a cold bed and cold season. How can one be warm alone? not so soon nor so thoroughly.
Chapter 4 The Dreadfulness of Oppression. Guidance on Living. This chapter begins with considering the dreadfulness of oppression and then continu...
Sundry Observations On Life ( Ecclesiastes 4:4-12 ). Having all to briefly considered the oppression that was in the world, which has left him fee...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 4:10 . If they fall.] Not both together, but if one or the other falls. Ecclesiastes 4:12 . A threefold cord.]...
Ecclesiastes 3:1-5 A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 . Wherefore I praised the dead more than the living, who are robbed, fleeced, and exposed to incessant afflictions, from oppressi...
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. The necessity and benefits of religious society I. Prove the truth o...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 4:1-21 Section 5. Koheleth proceeds to give further illustrations of man ' s inability to be the architect of his...
Evils of Social and Civil Life
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat, the reference being to traveling companions obliged to pass the night out in the open air, the chill...
11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?