The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary on the Old Testament: EcclesiastesFunk & Wagnalls, 1892 |
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... thought , leaving to others the last strokes and finishing touches . We have consulted the best expositors , and by illustrations and extracts from many able writers , have endeavoured to make this work answerable to its design ...
... thought , leaving to others the last strokes and finishing touches . We have consulted the best expositors , and by illustrations and extracts from many able writers , have endeavoured to make this work answerable to its design ...
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... thoughts on other minds . All who would affect public assemblies by speech must use the expedient of preaching . The great masters of know- ledge , in every age , were , in their several ways , preachers . Solomon was the inspired ...
... thoughts on other minds . All who would affect public assemblies by speech must use the expedient of preaching . The great masters of know- ledge , in every age , were , in their several ways , preachers . Solomon was the inspired ...
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... thought outwardly , and also the inward thought , or the reason itself . The Eternal Word reveals the Eternal Reason . Christ is the power of God , and the Wisdom of God . 2 . By His works . These are the thoughts of God as manifested ...
... thought outwardly , and also the inward thought , or the reason itself . The Eternal Word reveals the Eternal Reason . Christ is the power of God , and the Wisdom of God . 2 . By His works . These are the thoughts of God as manifested ...
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... thoughts and deeds can only reach us through literature , which embalms the past . History is written that the deeds ... thought that our names and deeds shall quickly be lost in forgetfulness . Hence the restless pur- suit of fame . But ...
... thoughts and deeds can only reach us through literature , which embalms the past . History is written that the deeds ... thought that our names and deeds shall quickly be lost in forgetfulness . Hence the restless pur- suit of fame . But ...
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... thought and anxiety damp his pleasures . 3. In the issues . of it . When all is done , and he looks into the future , nothing remains but a dreary blank . He alone has lasting gain who works for a world higher than this . He who does ...
... thought and anxiety damp his pleasures . 3. In the issues . of it . When all is done , and he looks into the future , nothing remains but a dreary blank . He alone has lasting gain who works for a world higher than this . He who does ...
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beauty believer's Believers beloved blessed Bride Bridegroom character Christ Christian Church comfort darkness death delight DELITZSCH desire Divine duty earth earthly enjoy enjoyment eternal evil eyes faith favour fear feeling folly fool fruit GESENIUS gift give glory God's goeth Gospel grace hand happiness hath heart heaven heavenly Hence holy hope human infinite Israel Jermin Jerusalem Jesus John xiv King King's knowledge labour Lebanon light living Lord Mahanaim MAIN HOMILETICS man's marriage Matt mind misery moral myrrh mystery nature ness Nisbet oppression outward painful PARAGRAPH.-Verses passion peace Pentecost pleasure possession prayer Preacher present proper RASHI reason regard riches righteous Saviour seek sense SEPTUAGINT Shenir Shulamite Shulamite's sinner solemn Solomon Song Song of Solomon sorrow soul spikenard spirit SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS sweet TARGUM thee THEODORET things thou thought tion true truth unto vanity Verse 12 vineyard VULGATE Wardlaw wealth wisdom wise words
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Page 63 - Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Page 101 - Lord to prepare his ways ; to give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God ; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Page 107 - Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
Page 105 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Page 35 - Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
Page 92 - And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying : for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Page 83 - And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write ; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth ; and shutteth, and no man openeth...
Page 73 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 142 - The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.