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abstract alliteration Almighty appears Aramaic argument befooled better Bishop Church Church of England CHURCHMAN clause College Commentary comp contracted relative Crown 8vo Deity devotion Divine Ecclesiastes Edition EDWARD MEYRICK GOULBURN emphatic English equi equivalent equivoke evanescent evil follows folly fool Francis de Sales full relative gives hath heart Hebrew hence Henri Perreyve Hexapla hiphil Holy human idea instance of evanescence JOHN HENRY BLUNT king Koheleth labour living Masoretic text meaning Moreover niphal notice noun observed occurs chap Oxford participle passage peculiar phatic plural Prayer Preacher present profit reason regard rejoice render repeated respect Rugby School Scripture seen sense sentence sermons Small 8vo soul Symmachus Syriac theological thing thou tion toil translation vanity verb vexation of spirit volume Vulgate whole wicked wisdom wise word work-day world καὶ
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Page 4 - All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Page 16 - The Greek Testament: with a critically revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers, By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels.
Page 64 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 26 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 52 - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page 48 - Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. "Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Page 18 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Page 82 - ... in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Page 66 - Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity : for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might ; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest...
Page 34 - 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.