The Royal Preacher: Lectures on EcclesiastesR. Carter & brothers, 1852 - 353 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
amidst apostasy ascer beautiful behold Bethlehemite better Bible blessed blessed Isle blessedness brethren Christ Christian comfort creature disciple Divine dromedaries earth Ecclesiastes eternal evil eyes faith fancy Father fear feel forever friends gift gilt give glory God's Gospel grace hand happy hath hear heart heaven Hebrew holy hope human hyssop immortality intel Israel Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus King King Solomon knowledge labor LECTURE living look Lord man's memory ment mercy Midian mighty mind morocco ness never omon once oppressed palace peace piety pleasure prayer Preacher READ ECCLES righteousness royal Saviour Scripture sinner Socrates sorrow soul spirit sweet tears tell thee things thou Thou art mindful thought tion true truth unholy passion unto vanity Vanity of vanities vexation vols vows whilst wisdom wise wish words youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 84 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
עמוד 15 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take: The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
עמוד 254 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
עמוד 113 - I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
עמוד 18 - Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter : Fear God, and keep his commandments ; for this is the whole duty of man : for God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
עמוד 23 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
עמוד 24 - But it is good for me to draw near to God : I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works." And just as Asaph's heart for a time was " grieved," — " So foolish was I, and ignorant : I was as a beast before thee," — so Solomon's feet actually slipped, and in this book he gives us his various reasonings whilst still a backslider.
עמוד 193 - The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
עמוד 33 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
עמוד 194 - O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness...