 | 1885 - 680 pagine
...For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than 1 1 iii. 21. Who knoweth the spirit of There Is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of Ood. For who can... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1886 - 818 pagine
...eye is not satisfied with seeing. " " Christ is always desiring and seeking our salvation." ii. 24. " There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink." It is good to partake of the Lord's Snpper. Jer. x. 16, " Woe to thee, 0 land, when thy king is a child."... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Finlayson - 1887 - 288 pagine
...mere riches ; and perhaps it has reference also to the vanity of mere luxury and pleasure-seeking. "There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour." We are not to regard these words as at all akin to the utterance... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1887 - 350 pagine
...is, concerning the spiritual life, — proceeds to interpret it accordingly. When Koheleth says, " There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink," Augustine declares he is referring to the Eucharist. When Koheleth says, " Be not righteous over-much,"... | |
 | Isaac S. Moses, Adolph Moses - 1889 - 290 pagine
...his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity. 37. Theie is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also 38. I saw, that it is from the hand of God. For who... | |
 | Samuel Rolles Driver - 1891 - 618 pagine
...will inherit them (2, 18-23). The onty conclusion to which his quest brought him was that there was "nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink," and enjoy such pleasure as God provides for him during the brief span of life that is his lot (2, 24-26).... | |
 | Samuel Rolles Driver - 1891 - 690 pagine
...will inherit them (2, 18-23). The only conclusion to which his quest brought him was that there was "nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink," and enjoy such pleasure as God provides for him during the brief span of life that is his lot (2, 24-26).... | |
 | 1892 - 384 pagine
...should be so. It is a question painfully asked of the Supreme Wisdom, not in anger but in grief. 24. There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink.] Not in the Epicurean sense, worshipping the triad of sensual life — eat, drink, and be merry ; but... | |
 | Adolph Moses - 1892 - 288 pagine
...travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity. 37. Theie i < nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also 38. I saw, that it is from the hand of God. For who... | |
 | Samuel Rolles Driver - 1892 - 280 pagine
...ix. 22-24 j ch. xxi. done with it is to enjoy, while it lasts, such pleasures as it brings w1th it. " There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour." l How strangely these words fall upon our ears ! How unlike... | |
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There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. 
