Philosophy

How Nave’s arranged it

• The nature of thingsEcclesiastes 1Ecclesiastes 2Ecclesiastes 3Ecclesiastes 4Ecclesiastes 5Ecclesiastes 6Ecclesiastes 7
• A philosophical discussion about wisdomJob 28
• Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and His providenceJob 5:8–20Job 9Job 10:2–21Job 12:6–24Job 33:12–30Job 37
• Reveals the mysteries of providenceProverbs 25:2Romans 1:19Romans 1:20
• Is not sufficient for an adequate knowledge of God1 Corinthians 1:211 Corinthians 1:22
• Is not enough for salvation through the atonement of Jesus Christ1 Corinthians 2:6–10
• Employment of, was not Paul's method of preaching the gospel1 Corinthians 1:171 Corinthians 1:191 Corinthians 1:211 Corinthians 2:1–51 Corinthians 2:13
• Greek schools ofActs 17:18
• RabbinicalColossians 2:8Colossians 2:16–191 Timothy 6:20
• See Reason
• See [3055]GOD, Miscellaneous Scriptures Relating to

The passages, in Bible order (28)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Job 5:8–20

   However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

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2. Job 9:1

   Then Job answered:

   ›Commentary on Job 9:12 voices

   “Blessed Job in his answer above in which he had responded to Eliphaz's words, seemed to have overlooked one argument which Eliphaz had proposed about the justice of God when he said, "Will man ever be justified in comparison with God?" (4:17) He rather seemed …

   “Then Job answered and said. Without taking notice of Bildad's harsh expressions and severe censures, or his unfriendliness to him; he enters directly into the argument, grants some things, confutes others, and defends himself and his conduct.

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3. Job 10:2–21

   I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.

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   “I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore Thou so judgest me. Whereas he declares himself a sinner 'in the bitterness of his soul,' what else does he say to God, but that he may not be condemned, in that the bitterness of his present penance does away with the pains of ensuing wrath? Now God judgeth man in this life in two ways, seeing that either by present ills He is already beginning to bring upon him the torments to come, or else by present scourges He does away with the torments to come.

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4. Job 12:6–24

   The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

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   “The tabernacles of robbers have plenty, and they provoke God with boldness; when He hath given all into their hand. It is easy for a man, at the time, to despise riches, when he has them, but it is hard to hold them worthless, when he lacks them. Hence it is clearly shewn, how great a contempt of earthly things was lodged in the breast of blessed Job, who then declares that all is nought which the lost enjoy in plenty, at the time when he had lost every thing.

   “The tabernacles of robbers prosper - Those who live by the plunder of their neighbors are often found in great secular prosperity; and they that provoke God by impiety and blasphemy live in a state of security and affluence. These are administrations of Providence which cannot be accounted for; yet the Judge of all the earth does right. Therefore prosperity and adversity are no evidences of a man’s spiritual state, nor of the place he holds in the approbation or disapprobation of God.

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5. Job 28:1

   “Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

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   “Surely there is a vein for silver - Margin, “mine” Coverdale renders this, “There are places where silver is molten.” Prof. Lee renders it, “There is an outlet for the silver,” and supposes it means the coming out or separation of the silver from the earthy particles by which it is surrounded in the ore, not the coming out from the mine.

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6. Job 33:12–30

   Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

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   “This is the thing then in which thou art not justified. I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. Blessed Job had indeed truly said, that he had been scourged without any fault. For he said of himself exactly what the Lord had said of him to the devil, Thou hast moved Me against him to afflict him without cause. But Eliu did not believe, that his fault doing nothing in it, he could be scourged as a matter of grace.

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7. Job 37:1

   “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.

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   “At this my heart trembled, and was moved from its place. Because, while fear strikes the mind, it estranges it from itself, the Latin translations sometimes call an ecstasy fear, as is said by the Psalmist, I said in my fear, I am cast out from the sight of Thine eyes; [Ps. 31, 22] Where, namely, it could have been called not fear, but a transport ['excessus']. But fear is in that place used for transport, because the mind is estranged from itself in fear, as it is a transport.

   “At this also - That is, in view of the thunderstorm, for it is that which Elihu is describing. This description was commenced in Job 36:29, and is continued to Job 37:5, and should not have been separated by the division into chapters. Elihu sees a tempest rising. The clouds gather, the lightnings flash, the thunder rolls, and he is awed as with the conscious presence of God. There is nowhere to be found a more graphic and impressive description of a thunder-storm than this; compare Herder on Hebrew Poetry, vol. i., 85ff, by Marsh, Burlington, 18

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8. Proverbs 25:2

   It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.

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9. Ecclesiastes 1:1

   These are the words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:

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   “Solomon is here given the Greek name Ecclesiastes [Heb Qōhelet], for he gathers the assembly [qāhāl], that is, the church. But we can call him the Preacher because he speaks to the people and his word is directed not only to one person but to everyone.

   “The words of the preacher,.... Or the preacher's sermon. The whole book is one continued discourse, and an excellent one it is; consisting not of mere words, but of solid matter; of things of the greatest importance, clothed with words apt and acceptable, which the preacher sought out, Ecc 12:10. The Targum is, "the words of the prophecy, which the preacher, who is Solomon, prophesied.'' According to which this book is prophetic; and so it interprets it, and owns it to be Solomon's.

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10. Ecclesiastes 2:1

    I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.

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    "I said to myself: Come, I will experiment with joy and enjoy pleasure. That, too, turned out to be futile." After I detected that pain and labour were in the essence of wisdom and the accumulation of knowledge, and nothing else except vain and endless struggle, I felt joyful that I would overflow with excess, accrue riches, amass great wealth, and take temporary pleasures before I die. But even in this I saw my vanity, for past pleasures do not help the present, and do not fill up what is empty.

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11. Ecclesiastes 3:1

    To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

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12. Ecclesiastes 4:1

    Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

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13. Ecclesiastes 5:1

    Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

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    “Keep thy foot - i. e., Give thy mind to what thou art going to do. The house of God - It has been said that here an ordinary devout Hebrew writer might have been expected to call it “the house of Yahweh;” but to those who accept this book as the work of Solomon after his fall into idolatry, it will appear a natural sign of the writer’s self-humiliation, an acknowledgment of his unworthiness of the privileges of a son of the covenant, that he avoids the name of the Lord of the covenant (see Ecc 1:13 note).

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14. Ecclesiastes 6:1

    There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind:

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15. Ecclesiastes 7:1

    A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.

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    “A good name is better than precious ointment,.... The word "good" is not in the text, but is rightly supplied, as it is by Jarchi; for of no other name can this be said; that which is not good cannot be better.

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16. Acts 17:18

    Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

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    "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ;" branding not all philosophy, but the Epicurean, which Paul mentions in the Acts of the Apostles, which abolishes providence and deifies pleasure, and whatever other philosophy honours the elements, but places not over them the efficient cause, nor apprehends the Creator.

    “Certain philosophers of the Epicureans - These were the followers of Epicurus, who acknowledged no gods except in name, and absolutely denied that they exercised any government over the world or its inhabitants; and that the chief good consisted in the gratification of the appetites of sense. These points the Epicureans certainly held; but it is not clear that Epicurus himself maintained such doctrines. And of the Stoics - These did not deny the existence of the gods; but they held that all human affairs were governed by fate.

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