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Ecclesiastes

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For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: See also: Ecclesiastes 3:17 Matthew 16:3 Ecclesiastes 8:5-6a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; See also: Hebrews 9:27 Job 14:5 Matthew 15:13a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; See also: Hosea 6:1-2 1 Samuel 2:6 Jeremiah 45:4a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; See also: Romans 12:15 Psalms 30:5 James 4:9a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; See also: 2 Kings 3:25 Joshua 10:27 Joshua 4:3-9a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; See also: Philippians 3:7-8 Luke 9:24-25 Mark 8:35-37a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; See also: Micah 7:5 Amos 5:13 Esther 4:13-14a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. See also: Ephesians 5:25 Ephesians 5:28-29 Luke 14:26What profit has he who works in that in which he labors? See also: Ecclesiastes 1:3 Ecclesiastes 5:16 Proverbs 14:23I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. See also: Ecclesiastes 1:13-14 Genesis 3:19 Ecclesiastes 2:26He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end. See also: Romans 11:33 Romans 1:19-20 Job 11:7I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. See also: Psalms 37:3 Ecclesiastes 3:22 1 Timothy 6:18Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God. See also: Ecclesiastes 2:24 Isaiah 65:21-23 Ecclesiastes 9:7I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him. See also: James 1:17 Psalms 33:11 Romans 11:36That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away. See also: Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 Ecclesiastes 6:10Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there. See also: Ecclesiastes 4:1 Ecclesiastes 5:8 Psalms 94:21-22I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.” See also: 2 Corinthians 5:10 Ecclesiastes 12:14 Matthew 16:27I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals. See also: Psalms 73:22 Psalms 49:12 Hebrews 9:27For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity. See also: Psalms 49:12 Psalms 49:20 Job 14:10-12All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. See also: Genesis 3:19 Job 34:15 Ecclesiastes 12:7Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?” See also: Ecclesiastes 12:7 John 14:3 2 Corinthians 5:1Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what will be after him? See also: Ecclesiastes 2:24 Ecclesiastes 3:11-12 Ecclesiastes 10:14

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Ver. 1. Heaven, in this world, where alone things change. S. Jer. --- Nothing is here perpetual, but to be used in a proper manner. W. --- The heart must not be attached to any thing created. C.

--- Pleasure had been condemned and approved. C. 2. He shews that all must have its time. M.

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Ecclesiastes 3:5

Ver. 5. Stones, with a sling, or to render a field useless. 4 K. iii. 25. Is. v. 2. ---

Embraces.

Countenance was sometimes prescribed for married people. Lev. xx. 18. and 1

Cor. vii. S. Jer.

S. Aug. Ench. 78. C. --- Hatred often succeeds love. v. 8. and 2 K. xiii. 14. H.

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Ecclesiastes 3:9

Ver. 9. Labour? What advantage does he derive from any of these things? C. i.

3. C.

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Ecclesiastes 3:11

Ver. 11. Consideration. Lit. "dispute." Heb. and Sept. "heart." H. --- Pagn. "He has implanted the desire of immortality in their hearts." --- End. If we could discover the properties of each thing, we should be in raptures; (C.) but as we cannot, this increases our vexation. M.

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Ecclesiastes 3:12

Ver. 12. Well; virtuously: or, perhaps, as literally, to enjoy himself. v. 13. C. ---

Thus thinks the man of pleasure. Is. xxii. 31. S. Jer.

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Ecclesiastes 3:13

Ver. 13. God. He gives peace and plenty; and still more, the grace to use these things, so as to obtain heaven. C.

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Ecclesiastes 3:14

Ver. 14. Feared. The order of the seasons, &c. teaches men to adore Providence. S. Jer. --- He has arranged every thing, how mutable soever. S.

Aug. Conf. i. 6.

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Ecclesiastes 3:15

Ver. 15. Past. He causes plants to spring forth afresh. Heb. Sept. &c. "But will God seek after the oppressed?" Here commences another objection. C.

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Ecclesiastes 3:17

Ver. 17. And then. Prot. "for there is a time there (v. 1.) for every purpose, and for every work."

At the day of judgment all will receive their due. H.

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Ecclesiastes 3:18

This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.

Ver. 18. Beasts. Another doubt; or suggestion of infidels. S. Greg. Dial. iv. 4.

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Ecclesiastes 3:19

Ver. 19. Man hath nothing more, &c. viz. as to the life of the body. Ch.

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Ecclesiastes 3:21

Ver. 21. Who knoweth, &c. viz. experimentally; since no one in this life can see a spirit. But as to the spirits of the beasts, which is merely animal, and becomes extinct by the death of the beast, who can tell the manner it acts so as to give life and motion, and by death to descend downward, that is, to be no more? Ch. --- Few are able to prove that the soul of man is immortal rather that that of beasts, since the bodies of both are subject to the like inconveniences.

The objection is answered C. xii. 7. C. --- The difficulty of answering is intimated by "Who?" &c. Ps. xiv. 1. M.

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Ecclesiastes 3:22

Ver. 22. After him. He knows not who shall be his heir, or how soon he may die.

None returns from the other world to inform him of what is there transacted.

Thus the libertine encourages himself. C.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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