Ecclesiastes 5:13 - The Pulpit Commentary

Ecclesiastes 5:13 - Exposition

There is also a sore evil which I have seen under the sun (so Ecclesiastes 5:16 ). The fact that follows is, of course, not universally true, but occasionally seen, and is a very bitter evil. The Septuagint calls it ἀῤῥωστία ; the Vulgate, infirmitas . Riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt ; rather, preserved by the possessor , hoarded and guarded, only to bring their lord added grief when by some reverse of fortune he loses them, as explained in what follows.

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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Ecclesiastes 5:13 - Exposition

Ecclesiastes 5:13 - Exposition

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