 | Joseph Williams Blakesley - 1843 - 236 pages
...comforter, and on the side of their oppressors there was power : but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than...not seen the evil work that is done under the sun." "Fret not thyself," is the admonition of the Psalmist,f " because of the ungodly, neither be thou envious... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...delivered a mo;t solemn and appropriate discourse from Ecclesiastes, chap. iv. verse 2 — ' Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive ;" and afterwards read the burial service, which was closed by an appropriate address and prayer by... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - 688 pages
...life, and that they are most happy who have never yet received 1ife ; Eccles. iv. 2, 3, " Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than...not seen the evil work that is done under the sun." In chapter ii. 20, 21, 22, he speaks expressly of the life of a righteous man, whose labor is in wisdom,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - 662 pages
...comforter : and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. Wherefore, I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than...not seen the evil work that is done under the sun." Surely it will not be said that Solomon has only respect to his times here too, when he speaks of the... | |
 | 1855 - 444 pages
...which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better than both they is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil -work that is done under the sun." 24 Shall we overlook 2i Matt. xxvi. 24. 22 Comment in loco. ^ Matt, xxiii. 6. ** Eccl. iv. 2, 3. the... | |
 | 1844 - 484 pages
...makes the condition of saints departed worse than that of the living, whereas the wise man says, " I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive," Eccl. iv. 2: the reason is, because "blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth; yea,... | |
 | David Knowles - 1966 - 236 pages
...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...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, and Feckenham and his monks... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 pages
...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
...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...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, and Feckenham and his... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pages
...comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 2 Wherefore ` 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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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 done under the sun. 
