Search The Scriptures —Study 7 — Ecclesiastes 11:9 – 12:14

Study 7 From the Book of Ecclesiastes is: Ecclesiastes 11:9 – 12:14

With this lesson we end the book of Ecclesiastes. Tomorrow, we will start the book of Song of Solomon.

       1-     In the Preacher’s counsel to youth, (a) in what is youth to rejoice, (b) to what all-important fact must heed be given, and (c) who is to be remembered? What is the reason for this counsel?

        2-     Contrast the joyful hope of the Christian with the picture of death and old age given here. Cf. 2 Cor. 4:16-18; 2 Tim. 4:6-8; 1 Pet.1:3-5.

       3-     In summing up man’s duty, what place is given to God? How, in consequence, ought we to live?

Notes

        1-     11:10 ‘Vanity’ has here the meaning of ‘transitory’ or passing’.

        2-     12:2. Old age, is here compared to winter weather, when storm succeeds storm.

        3-     12:3-6. A series of pictures of the failure of man’s various bodily faculties in old age, such as strength of limb, number of teeth, keenness of sight, etc. ‘When old age fears a height, and even a walk has its terrors, when his hair is almond white, and he drags his limbs along, as the spirit flags and fades’ (verse 5, Moffat)

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