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Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes Excerpt ‎The fundamental error of the children of men, and that which is at the bottom of all their departures from God , is the same with that of our first parents, hoping to be as gods by entertaining themselves with that which seems good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and desirable to make one wise. Now the scope of this book is to show that this is a great mistake, that our happiness consists not in being as gods to ourselves, to have what we will and do what we will, but in having him that made us to be a God to us. The moral philosophers disputed much about man’s felicity, or chief good. Various opinions they had about it; but Solomon, in this book , determines the question, and assures us that to fear God and to keep his commandments is the whole of man. …   More Henry, Matthew.  Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible : Complete and Unabridged in One Volume . Peabody: Hendrickson, 1994. Print.

Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes Excerpt ‎The fundamental error of the children of men, and that which is at the bottom of all their departures from God, is the same with that of our first parents, hoping to be as gods by entertaining themselves with that which seems good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and desirable to make one wise. Now the scope of this book is to show that this is a great mistake, that our happiness consists not in being as gods to ourselves, to have what we will and do what we will, but in having him that made us to be a God to us. The moral philosophers disputed much about man’s felicity, or chief good. Various opinions they had about it; but Solomon, in this book, determines the question, and assures us that to fear God and to keep his commandments is the whole of man. …  More Henry, Matthew.  Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible : Complete and Unabridged in One Volume . Peabody: Hendrickson, 1994. Print.