Ecclesiastes 12:7

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 12:7

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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 12:7

Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ver. 7. Then shall the dust return to the earth, &c. ] What is man, saith Nazianzen, but Nους και χους , soul and soil, breath and body; a puff of wind the one, a pile of dust the other; no solidity in either. Zoroaster and some other ancient heathens imagined that the soul had wings, that, having broken these wings, she fell headlong into the body, and that, recovering her wings... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ecclesiastes 12:7

dust: Ecclesiastes 3:20, Genesis 3:19, Genesis 18:27, Job 4:19, Job 4:20, Job 7:21, Job 20:11, Job 34:14, Job 34:15, Psalms 90:3, Psalms 146:4, Daniel 12:2 the spirit: Ecclesiastes 3:21 God: Genesis 2:7, Numbers 16:22, Numbers 27:16, Isaiah 57:16, Jeremiah 38:16, Zechariah 12:1, Hebrews 12:9, Hebrews 12:23 Reciprocal: Genesis 5:5 - and he died Genesis 15:15 - And thou Genesis 23:4 - burying place Genesis 23:19 - General Genesis 49:33 - and yielded Genesis 50:5 - bury me Genesis 50:24 - I... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 12:7

7. Dust… earth Just as, Genesis 2:7, man was taken as dust from the ground, so now he returns to “dust.” And the spirit, then inbreathed from God, and thence forming a living person, returns unto God who gave it. It is not, in this return “unto God,” resolved back into an impersonal breath, which is a pantheistic idea unknown to the Hebrew mind. It returns, as Ecclesiastes 12:14 indicates, a personal being “unto God,” awaiting his judgment. read more

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

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:1-7

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 12:7

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 12:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ecclesiastes 12:7

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 12:7

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