Ecclesiastes 12

Scofield's Reference Notes - Ecclesiastes 12:13

fear Also; Deuteronomy 6:2; Deuteronomy 10:12 (See Scofield "Deuteronomy 10:12- :") . read more

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 12:1-14

Chapter 12Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth ( Ecclesiastes 12:1 ),It is interesting that most conversions are made during the teenage years. Seven-eighths of every decision for Jesus Christ is made while in your teenage years. That's why it's an important injunction, "Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth."while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them ( Ecclesiastes 12:1 );Don't wait until you get old to serve the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 12:1-14

Ecclesiastes 12:1 . Remember now thy Creator. Hebrews בוראיךְ Boreicha, thy Creators. The word is plural, as אלהים Elohim, Genesis 1:1, designating the Divinity or Godhead, as Romans 1:20. Certainly, Solomon did not mean to exclude the Messiah, the Word and Wisdom of God. See on Proverbs 8:22; Proverbs 30:4. Ecclesiastes 12:2 . Nor the clouds return after the rain. In youth, we recover our strength after infirmities; but now, the springs of nature being exhausted, the most indulgent... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:1-7

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.The Creator rememberedHow shall we understand this? Is it an allegory describing the weakening of the body? Is it a description of the Jews in captivity? Is it a dirge from some old book of hymns? The best explanation seems this: first, the Preacher describes old age as a stormy day; secondly, the figure changes to that of a palace going to ruin; then there is a reference to “the seven evil days” of spring in the Orient, which... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:2

Ecclesiastes 12:2The clouds return after the rain.Sorrow unspeakableComing home from the burial of his little Agnes, the late Nehemiah Adams, D.D., of Boston, drew out of his pocket the ribbon-tied key of her casket. “I thought for a few minutes that I should lose my reason,” he writes. “The clouds returned after the rain,” and they were very dark and distressing. And who has not had similar experiences! And sometimes they are exquisitely painful as well as sorrowful, as when conscience... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:3

Ecclesiastes 12:3Those that look out of the windows be darkened.WindowsIn the description of the infirmities of old age, the window doubtless stands for the eyes, with lashes like lattice-work of an Oriental house, and the fringe of the iris regulating the light as a curtain. Observe that it is said, not that the windows, but “those that look out of them” are darkened: the reference, therefore, being not to the failing eyesight, as many have supposed, but rather to the growing dullness of the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:4

Ecclesiastes 12:4The doors shall be shut in the streets.DoorsLiterally, “double deers.” This occurs in the description of the decrepitude of an old man: “The keepers of the house (the arms) shall tremble, and the strong men (the legs) shall bow themselves, and the grinders (the teeth) cease because they are few, and those that leek out of the windows (our natural interest in the world) be darkened, and the double doors shall be shut in the street.” By “double doors” is meant those bodily... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:5

Ecclesiastes 12:5The almond-tree shall flourish.The almond-tree in blossomIn January, Palestine is adorned with the blossoming of the almond-tree. It breathes its life into that winter month as a promise of God sometimes lightens up and sweetens the coldness and desolation of a sorrowing spirit. When the almond-tree was in full bloom, it must have looked like some tree before our window on a winter’s morning, after a nightfall of snow, when its brightness is almost insufferable, every stem a... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:7

Ecclesiastes 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.The death of the body, and separate state of soulsI. Death reduces our bodies to their primitive dust.1. How doth this stain the pride of all flesh, and bring their glory into contempt1. What are pedigree and noble blood that mortal man should value himself upon them?2. Why should we give way to the slavish fear of man? He is but dust, and must die as well as we; and God can... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:8

Ecclesiastes 12:8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, all is vanity.Two reviews of life (with 2 Timothy 4:7-8): These two preachers were both distinguished men, aged men, men of wide experiences. Thus far they resembled each other; but the results of their experience are a perfect and a startling contrast. You would expect, with the experiences behind them, that their verdicts would be contradictory. You would expect the man for whom earth had plucked her choicest roses to present life as a... read more

Scofield's Reference Notes - Ecclesiastes 12:13

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 12:1-14

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 12:1-14

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:1-7

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:2

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:3

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:4

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:5

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:7

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:8

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