 | 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 - 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... | |
 | sir George Sinclair (2nd bart.) - 1852 - 818 pages
...have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun;" he not only " praises the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive," but, by believing that they can, whilst dwelling in the " many mansions" of their Father's house, hear... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - 1852 - 642 pages
...was, " Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes, sed feliciorem utroque judicavi, qui necdum natus est," ie Wherefore, I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living Eccics 4. which are yet alive ; yea, better is he than both they, which 2. 3. has not yet been. Part... | |
 | David Knowles - 1966 - 236 pages
...Westminster, and the abbot preached from a text which may have borne heavy undertones for the preacher: 'Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both which hath not yet been.' A month later Elizabeth was crowned in the Abbey,... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 pages
...they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. 3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
 | David Knowles, Dom David Knowles - 1979 - 542 pages
...Westminster, and the abbot preached from a text which may have borne heavy undertones for the preacher: 'Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both which hath not yet been.'* A month later Elizabeth was crowned in the Abbey,... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pages
...they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
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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... 
