Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 1:2

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 1:2 - 1:2

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 1:2 - 1:2

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

1:1 - 1:1
1:2 - 1:2
1:3 - 1:3
1:4 - 1:4
1:5 - 1:5
1:6 - 1:6
1:7 - 1:7
1:8 - 1:8
1:9 - 1:9
1:10 - 1:10
1:11 - 1:11
1:12 - 1:12
1:13 - 1:13
1:14 - 1:14
1:15 - 1:15
1:16 - 1:16
1:17 - 1:17
1:18 - 1:18

The theme proposed of the first part of his discourse.

Vanity of vanities - Hebraism for the most utter vanity. So “holy of holies” (Exo 26:33); “servant of servants” (Gen 9:25). The repetition increases the force.

all - Hebrew, “the all”; all without exception, namely, earthly things.

vanity - not in themselves, for God maketh nothing in vain (1Ti 4:4, 1Ti 4:5), but vain when put in the place of God and made the end, instead of the means (Psa 39:5, Psa 39:6; Psa 62:9; Mat 6:33); vain, also, because of the “vanity” to which they are “subjected” by the fall (Rom 8:20).