Acts 5:4; Deuteronomy 23:22; Proverbs 20:25
Reality in Religion. This section deals with worship and vows. Those who go to the house of God (whether Temple or synagogue is not clear) must go...
Better. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:24 .
DISCOURSE: 832 DUTY OF PAYING OUR VOWS Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 , When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in foo...
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, etc. - We are under c...
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. ( Deuteronomy 23:21 ; Deuteronomy 23:23 .)
Disheartening Outlook on Life 1-8. Disorders in the religious, in the political world. In the earlier part of this chapter the writer turns from s...
So also a happier and more effective Method of Worship is open to Men; Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 The men of affairs are led from the vocations of the...
Practical Maxims deduced from this View of the Business life. (b) A noble philosophy this, and pregnant with practical counsels of great value. Fo...
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...
The observation of the religious life brings no truer satisfaction. In this brief passage contempt for religion is not expressed, but there is absolu...
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. (4) When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer n...
Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow ,.... For a vow is an arbitrary thing; a man is not bound to make it, and while he vows not, it is in his...
Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Ver. 5. Better it is that thou shouldest not vow, ] q.d.,...
The Obligation of a Vow. 4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not...
That thou shouldest not vow; for this was no sin, because men are free to make such vows, or not to make them, as they think fit. See Numbers 30:...
Chapter 5 True Religion and Worship. The Problem of Riches. The Good Life. The Importance of True Worship ( Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 ). This chapter no...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 5:6 . Before the angel] The representative of God in the Temple, i.e ., the priest. Or it may be taken literally,...
Ecclesiastes 4:1-5 I. In the fourth chapter Koheleth comes to the conclusion that life is essentially and irretrievably wretched wretched not beca...
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 5:1 . Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God. Avoid wandering thoughts, and be wholly absorbed in devotion. Do not hear th...
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God. Reverence and fidelity This passage is a series of cautions against irreverence and insincer...
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it. Of remembering and keeping our vows One of the greatest inconveniences to which men are e...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 5:1-21 Section 6. Man's outward and secular life being unable to secure happiness and satisfaction, can these be fo...
Proper Worship of God
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, Deuteronomy 23:22 , not make rash promises supported by an obligation before the Lord, than that thou sho...
5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.