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2015 August 7



Antigone in Front of the Dead Polynices (1865)
Nikiphoros Lytras (1832-1904)
Academic Realism Style; Munich School
National Gallery of Greece, Athens, Greece
Image Source: Wikimedia


     Explanation: Ecclesiastes 6 speaks of the frustrations that come with mortality. One such frustration is illustrated in today's painting -- the indignity of being unburied.

1. Narrator's Introduction - The Vanity of Everything                (   1:1   -  1:11  ) - 946 B.C. Israel
2. Teacher's Introduction  - The Vanity of Everything                (   1:12 -  2:11  ) - 946 B.C. Israel
3. Teacher's Word's           - Coping With Vanity                         (  2:12 - 11:9   ) - 946 B.C. Israel
4. Teacher's Conclusion    - Overcome Vanity by Serving God  ( 11:10 - 12:7   ) - 946 B.C. Israel
5. Narrator's Conclusion   - Overcome Vanity by Serving God  ( 12:8   - 12:14 ) - 946 B.C. Israel

          [ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Ecclesiastes 5. ]

          [ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]

          [ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]

          [ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

          [ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Book of Ecclesiastes Dramatized. ]

     Solomon speaks of an evil which is common among men. Often a man accumulate riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants for nothing and has all he desires; but he has no power to partake of it. Instead, a stranger takes it. This is vanity, and evil disease (1-2). He may beget a hundred children; he may live many years; he may be filled with good; but, even so, he may be unburied. A child which dies in its mother's womb is better than he, because the child comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor know anything, so he has more rest than the man who had everything (3-5). Indeed, a man may live two-thousand years, yet see no good. All go to the same place -- the grave (6). A man labors for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not filled (7). The wise has no more than the fool; and the poor has nothing even though he walks before kings (8). What a man can see is better than the wandering of the desire. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit (9). Whatever has been has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one who is mightier than he (10). Since many things increase vanity, there is no advantage to man (11). No one knows what is good for a man all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow. No one can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun (12).


Ecclesiastes 6

The Frustrations of Mortality

1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth,
yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger [strange man] eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years [which] be many,
and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8 For what hath thewise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wanderingof the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
10 That which hath been is named [called by name] already,
and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?
for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?







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