 | 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 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Smalridge (bp. of Bristol.) - 1852 - 580 pages
...of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. This consideration led him to praise the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive: and the same consideration, if sufficiently attended to, would make us also entertain a more favourable... | |
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So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised... 
