Ecclesiastes 3:1,Ecclesiastes 3:2

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

SECOND DISCOURSEOf Earthly Happiness, its Impediments and Means of AdvancementChap. 3–5.A. The substance of earthly happiness or success consists in grateful joy of this life, and a righteous use of it.Ecclesiastes 3:1-22.1. The reasons for the temporal restriction of human happiness (consisting in the entire dependence of all human action and effort on an unchangeable, higher system of things)(Ecclesiastes 3:1-11.)1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

The vanity of life under the sun is evidenced not merely in the experience of the preacher himself, but in the wider outlook which he has been able to take. He now gives us some of the results of that learning in the process of which he had found no personal satisfaction. And first he speaks in greater detail of that mechanism of the universe to which he had referred at the opening of his discourse. There is everywhere a ceaseless routine. Though we have often read some parts of his... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

What Is Good in This Life Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 ; Ecclesiastes 3:1-14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to the second great question in the Book of Ecclesiastes. It is expressed in chapters 6 and 12: "Who knoweth what is good for man in this life?" The same question is asked in several other Scriptures. We have considered Solomon's conclusions about the labors of this life, and now we are to consider more of his conclusions as to the pleasures of this life. Here is a theme that should grip every... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

There is a Time for Everything In Its Place (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ). Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ‘To everything there is a fixed season, and a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die, A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted, A time to kill, and a time to heal, A time to break down, and a time to build up, A time to weep and a time to laugh, A time to mourn, and a time to dance, A time to cast stones, and a time to gather stones together, A time to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Ecclesiastes 3:1-Ezra : . From one point of view this section may be entitled In Praise of Opportunism, from another Human Helplessness. Every action in which man can engage has its allotted season, but who can be sure that he has found this season? God’ s plan can be known only in part, hence man’ s efforts to succeed are always liable to fail; nothing remains but to enjoy the present. Ecclesiastes 3:1 . purpose: read “ business” or “ affair.” In the Heb. the antitheses that follow are in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1

A season; a certain thee appointed by God for its being and continuance, which no human wit or providence can prevent or alter. And by virtue of this appointment or decree of God, all the vicissitudes and changes which happen in the world, whether comforts or calamities, do come to pass; which is here added, partly, to prove what he last said, Ecclesiastes 2:24,Ecclesiastes 2:26, that both the free and comfortable enjoyment of the creatures which some have, and the crosses and vexations which... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

CRITICAL NOTES.—Ecclesiastes 3:1. Season-time.] Season signifies a certain period or term; time denotes a division of time in general. Ecclesiastes 3:2. A time to plant, &c.] Used in O. T. as a metaphor to describe the founding and destruction of cities. Ecclesiastes 3:7. A time to rend and a time sew.] The rending of garments on hearing sad tidings, and sewing them when the season of grief is past. MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8THE SUPREMACY OF THE DIVINE CONTROLMan... read more

William Nicoll

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

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

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