| Adolf Guttmacher - 1903 - 268 pages
...long dead more than the living that are yet alive " (4: 2). A similar thought is voiced in (7b) : " The day of death (is better) than the day of one's birth." The school of Shammai, which objected to having Ecclesiastes placed in the Canon, based its objection... | |
| John Caird - 1906 - 282 pages
...when death shall come. Thus, in many ways it seems false to the common sentiment of humanity to say that " the day of death is better than the day of one's birth." Granting, then, that there is expressed in these words what is only a partial truth, it may be worth... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1908 - 448 pages
...preaching on Eccles. vii. i,1 with the event foresaid trysted my entring on the latter part of that text, " The day of death (is better) than the day of one's birth." This was a comfortable subject ; but whereas it could hardly miss to impress me with thoughts, that... | |
| Charles Foster Kent - 1911 - 176 pages
...may proclaim him truly righteous, and exclaim : 'A good name is more fragrant than rich perfume, and the day of death is better than the day of one's birth.' " No one can deny the value of the teaching methods of the scribes, nor the sincerity and devotion... | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer - 1915 - 536 pages
...matter which, on the whole, it is better to have behind one than before ? Does not the Preacher say : the day of death [is better] than the day of one's birth.* It is certainly a rash thing to wish for long life' ; for as the Span1 See Die Welt als Wille rind... | |
| James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - 1916 - 940 pages
...entering into port of a well-laden vessel (Midr. Rab. to EC 71) ; hence it is that the Wise Man declares that ' the day of death is better than the day of one's birth ' (i'i. I It is fulfilment as compared with mere promise. Far from being the primeval curse, death... | |
| Charles Francis Horne - 1917 - 468 pages
...voyage than for the ship whose fate no one could foretell. This is what King Solomon meant when he said that the day of death is better than the day of one's birth, since no one can foretell the career of the newly born child, whilst if a man goes hence with a good... | |
| Charles Francis Horne - 1917 - 438 pages
...we proclaim him truly righteous, and exclaim, " A good name is more fragrant than rich perfume, and the day of death is better than the day of one's birth." Rabbi Jochanan, the son of Broka, and Rabbi Eleazer, the son of Chismah, visited their teacher, Rabbi... | |
| Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 pages
...1915. In regard to the " Thracian " view of life one may well compare Ecclesiastes vii. 1 and 2 : " And the day of death [is better] than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting." Following is an English... | |
| Grace Williamson Edes - 1922 - 598 pages
...conservative men I ever knew, and so a good citizen was lost when he died. I have always believed, however, that the day of death is better than the day of one's birth, and so be it that he lived like a man and died like a Christian, I could not have wished him to be... | |
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