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Ecclesiastes 8 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Ecclesiastes 8, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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preachers & commentators

Ecclesiastes 8 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
אָדָם ʼâdâm H120 9 ruddy, human being
מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh H4639 6 action, transaction
רַע raʻ H7451 7 bad, evil
יָדַע yâdaʻ H3045 7 know, seeing
שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh H8121 4 sun, east
רָשָׁע râshâʻ H7563 4 wrong, bad
רָאָה râʼâh H7200 5 see

How preachers through history handled this text

7 public-domain excerpts on Ecclesiastes 8, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Spurgeon 3 Matthew Henry 2 Alexander MacLaren 1 John Wesley 1

“MISUSED RESPITE Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil'--ECCLES. viii. 11. When the Pharaoh of the Exodus saw there was respite, he hardened his heart. Abject in his fear before Moses, he was ready to promise anything; insolent in his pride, he swallows down his promises as soon as fear is eased, his repentance and his retractation of it combined to add new weights about his neck. He was but a conspicuous example of a universal fault. …”

— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of the Holy Scriptures: Second Kings from Chap., on Ecclesiastes 8:11–30 (Public Domain)

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