| Electronic journals - 1876 - 706 pages
...in a short time fulfilled a bug time." There is another passage which should not be omitted : — " Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
| Religion - 1849 - 614 pages
...clause.) Then follows an account of the feelings he had in view of all this, when he noticed it at first: "Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are not yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil... | |
| Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...had no comforter , and on the side of the oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. ' Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. • Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that... | |
| William Hendry Stowell - Congregationalists - 1850 - 522 pages
...overpowered, but rallied. The subject was a most appropriate one, and the sermon exceedingly beautiful: 'Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive.' " The manner in which he conducted the devotional services of the sanctuary deserves special attention.... | |
| Abraham Belais - Bible - 1850 - 84 pages
...be retarded. On consideration of this deplorable state of society, the wise Preacher exclaims : 2, "Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive." As in such cases as above quoted, justice can only be hoped for in a future state, the preacher justly... | |
| George W. Burnap - Theological anthropology - 1850 - 436 pages
...they had no comforter." So much was the author's sensibility shocked and his pity moved, that he " praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive," and thought it was better never to have been born, than to have an existence in a world so full of... | |
| Conduct of life - 1863 - 896 pages
...and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living wlii-ch are yet alive." So said the wise man, and his sentiments find a response in every heart that... | |
| William Sherlock - Providence and government of God - 1851 - 368 pages
...this, yet they think they have the Scripture on their side. For the wise man, Eccl. iv. 2, 3, tells us: "Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive : Yea, better is he than both they, who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
| Samuel Hopkins - 1852 - 790 pages
...they had HO comforter; and on the side of the oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive." (Ec. iv. 1, 2.) Solomon never saw any oppression like this, unless he looked forward to this very instance... | |
| sir George Sinclair (2nd bart.) - Protestants - 1852 - 818 pages
...have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun;" he not only " praises the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive," but, by believing that they can, whilst dwelling in the " many mansions" of their Father's house, hear... | |
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