Category: 3 – The Bible

The Bible – Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, Aramaic – Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, the books” – Hebrew Tanakh and early Christians writings. “from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.”

Ecclesiastes 2:12-17 – Despair and Hatred of Vanity and Futility

12 So I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly; for what will the man do who will come after the king except what has already been done? The collector of sentences come to think there are no unexplored works left to investigate through the application of wisdom, madness, and folly. All works to come have come before. This expands this […]

Ecclesiastes 2:9-11 Experiment Complete and All was Vanity

Ecclesiastes 2:9-11 Experiment Complete - All is comprehensively declared to be vanity. Accomplishing work itself is seen to have some limited value, thoughtsofgod.com, Thoughts of God, David Reese

9 Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem The experiment comes to an end and all three parts of the exercise are restated; Vanity of Wisdom, Knowledge, Madness, and Folly, Vanity of Physical Stimulation, and Vanity of Increasing Wealth. An argument can be made that these things do […]

Ecclesiastes 2 4-8 Experiment Part 3 Vanity of Increasing Wealth

Ecclesiastes 2 4-8 Experiment Part 3 Vanity of Increasing Wealth, Vanity, Gold, thoughtsofgod.com, Thoughts of God, David Reese

  4a I enlarged my works: Having explored actions of the mind and then actions of pleasure and stimulation, the collector of sentences advances to part 3 of the experiment, growing his property. גָּדַל gaw-dal’ – grow, advance, became greater, enlarge מַעֲשֶׂה mah-as-eh’ = work, property, business, possession 4b I built houses for myself, I […]