 | 1824 - 172 pages
...he can prevent the blights and mildews in the vegetable creation ! 71 . iii.21. Hence, "who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" Hence, " In the midst" of the spirit "of life we are in" the spirit of "death: of whom may we seek... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...time to die, &c. all go unto one place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again ; who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?— Eccles. iii. 1, 2. 20, 21. As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return, to go... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 518 pages
...G the Hebrew word rm here, for so, I find it translated the very next verse but one ; * Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth down to the earth? In which places it is plain, that Solomon applies the word m"i, and our translators... | |
 | J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 pages
...all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 1 [21] Who knoweth the spirit of a man that go. cth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth f J m [22] Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing .better, than that a man should rejoice in his... | |
 | Thomas Wood - 1825 - 440 pages
...is a remarkable difference made between the man and the beast in the following words : " Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?" Here we may remark, that at death the soul is separated from the body, and immediately enters into... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 588 pages
...from the mere instinctive spirit of beasts, when, in his preaching, he cried, saying, " Who knoM'eth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" Eccl. iii, 21. So again, in describing the death of man, he says, "Then shall the dust return to the... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...vanity. 20 All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth e LORD God of recompences shall surely requite. 57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise 22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works... | |
 | Thomas William Lancaster - 1825 - 494 pages
...appears from the book of Ecclesiastes, which " speaks their sentiments. Who knoweth (says " this author) the spirit of man that goeth upward, " and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward " to the earth^ And again, ' Then shall the dust " return to the earth as it was, AND THE SPIRIT " SHALL RETURN UNTO... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit Jof man that §goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ? ich.uM4 22 'Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in... | |
 | Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 944 pages
...man's future condition, his body is again to be raised, and brought to judgement. Ver. 21. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast which goeth downward to the earth.'] It is true indeed there is a future happiness belonging unto men... | |
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... them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that... 
