The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository Lectures on the Book Ecclesiastes : with a New TranslationArthur Miall, 1867 - 320 sider |
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... Dissertationes " and " Enchiri- dion " of that most Christian of the Classical Writers will readily understand how closely akin his tone of thought is to that of Coheleth . THE TABLE OF CONTENTS . I. THE INTRODUCTION $ 1 X PREFACE .
... Dissertationes " and " Enchiri- dion " of that most Christian of the Classical Writers will readily understand how closely akin his tone of thought is to that of Coheleth . THE TABLE OF CONTENTS . I. THE INTRODUCTION $ 1 X PREFACE .
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... Coheleth , " or , as we translate the word , " The Preacher . " Now the word " Coheleth " is not a masculine noun as the name of a man should be , but a feminine and abstract noun . It denotes , not an actual man , but an abstraction ...
... Coheleth , " or , as we translate the word , " The Preacher . " Now the word " Coheleth " is not a masculine noun as the name of a man should be , but a feminine and abstract noun . It denotes , not an actual man , but an abstraction ...
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... Coheleth ; I was beforetime Solomon , and reigned over Israel in Jerusalem ; but now I rule over only this staff . ' " We cannot but love this story for its beauty and pathos : and , though of course we must not accept it as history ...
... Coheleth ; I was beforetime Solomon , and reigned over Israel in Jerusalem ; but now I rule over only this staff . ' " We cannot but love this story for its beauty and pathos : and , though of course we must not accept it as history ...
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... Death . This Drama consists of a Prologue , Four Acts or Sec- tions , and an Epilogue . In the Prologue ( Chap . I. vv . 1 to 11 ) , Coheleth states the Problem to be solved . In the First Section ( Chap . I. v . 18 INTRODUCTION .
... Death . This Drama consists of a Prologue , Four Acts or Sec- tions , and an Epilogue . In the Prologue ( Chap . I. vv . 1 to 11 ) , Coheleth states the Problem to be solved . In the First Section ( Chap . I. v . 18 INTRODUCTION .
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... Coheleth summarizes and emphatically repeats this solution of the Problem of the Book . Now it was very natural that the Providential problem here discussed should fill a large space in Hebrew thought and literature ; that it should be ...
... Coheleth summarizes and emphatically repeats this solution of the Problem of the Book . Now it was very natural that the Providential problem here discussed should fill a large space in Hebrew thought and literature ; that it should be ...
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Babylonian beast better Book of Esther brief day caprice Captivity Chap cheerful Chief children of men Coheleth comfort conclusion craving dark death delights despot devotion Divine duty earth empire enjoy enjoyment evil eyes faith fathers favour fear folly fool foolish gains give goeth Golden Mean hand happy hath heart heaven Hebrew Preacher Herodotus hope human Jerusalem Jews judgment king labour laws learned Literally live look Maurice de Guérin means mirth moral nature neighbours noble oppressions Ormazd Persian Persian Empire pleasure Prudence put eternity Quest Rabbi race reign reward riches righteous rule sacred satisfied satraps saw IV Scriptures seek selfish sense Solomon soul Talmud temper things thou thought tion toil true trust truth utter vanity and vexation Vanity of vanities VERSE vexation of spirit VIII wealth wicked wisdom wise words worship Xerxes
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Side 307 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Side 10 - And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his figtree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
Side 248 - Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein : then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before • the Lord : For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth : he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
Side 62 - Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia, the Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Side 122 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Side 56 - And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority, And folly doctor-like controlling skill, And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill.
Side 83 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Side 131 - For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Side 122 - I steal by lawns and grassy plots, ' I slide by hazel covers; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers.
Side 314 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.