伝道者の書 3:8 JCB

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 I. Not only has God made everything, but there is a beauty in this arrangement where all is fortuitous to us, but all is fixed by Him. "He hath made everything beautiful in its time," and that season must be beautiful which to infinite love and wisdom seems the best. "Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the creation;" and, so to speak, each day that dawns, though its dawning include an earthquake, a battle, or a deluge each day that dawns, however many it... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Ecclesiastes 3:1-5:20 A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws which we had no voice in making; that we often lie at the mercy of men whose mercy is but a caprice; that in our origin and end, in body and spirit, in faculty and prospect, in our lives and pleasures, we are no better than the beasts that perish; that the avocations into which we plunge, amid which we seek to forget our sad estate, spring from our... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Chapter 3Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was monotony. Life is just monotonous.There is a time and a season, a time and a purpose under heaven to everything: there is a time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, a time to heal; a time to break down, a time to build up; a... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Ecclesiastes 3:1 . To every thing there is a season. The seasons of the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9:0., divides the times into twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the husbandmen, the shepherds, and the gardeners divided: the text refers to the actions of men. Ecclesiastes 3:11 . He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh. “Que l’ homme puisse comprendre l’ œuvre que Dieu a faite,” that man may comprehend the work... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8To everything there is a season.Times and seasons in the ChurchThe principle which Solomon asserts, and which is of extreme importance in all matters connected with our practical life in this world, is also of equal importance in religious matters. It is true of religion as of all other things, that in it too there is a time for all things, a time to be merry and a time to be sad; and moreover that true wisdom consists in regulating these times, not in leaving them to take... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:8

Ecc 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. Ver. 8. A time to love, and a time to hate. ] Yet I like not his counsel that said, Ama tanquam osurus, odi tanquam amaturus, a Let a man choose whom he may love, and then love whom he hath chosen. "Let love be without dissimulation; abhor the evil, cleave to the good." Rom 12:9 Hate we may, but then it must be, non virum, sed vitium, not the man, but his evil qualities; whereof also we must seek to bereave him,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ecclesiastes 3:8

time to love: Ezekiel 16:8, Psalms 139:21, Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:28, Ephesians 5:29, Titus 2:4 a time to hate: 2 Chronicles 19:2, Luke 14:26, Revelation 2:2 a time of war: Genesis 14:14-Esther :, Joshua 8:1-Joel :, Joshua 11:23, 2 Samuel 10:6-Psalms :, 1 Kings 5:4, 2 Chronicles 20:1-Joel :, 2 Chronicles 20:30 Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 11:1 - after the year read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ecclesiastes 3:8

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.To love — When God stirs up love, or gives occasion for the exercise of it. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:8

8. To love… to hate Even the movements of human passion are recognised as subject to the inevitable order. Men now “love” and now “hate” each other. War… peace Nations are now at “war,” and again in “peace.” The writer does not commit himself to the approval of any of the things here named. He simply takes twenty-eight illustrations from common life to show how the course of the world goes, and urges that this course is irresistible. read more