Ecclesiastes Chapter 12 Matthew Henry Commentary Concise

A description of the infirmities of age. (1-7)
All is vanity: also a warning of the judgment to come. (8-14)

Verses 1-7 We should remember our sins against our Creator, repent, and seek forgiveness. We should remember our duties, and set about them, looking to him for grace and strength. This should be done early, while the body is strong, and the spirits active. When a man has the pain of reviewing a misspent life, his not having given up sin and worldly vanities till he is forced to say, I have no pleasure in them, renders his sincerity very questionable. Then follows a figurative description of old age and its infirmities, which has some difficulties; but the meaning is plain, to show how uncomfortable, generally, the days of old age are. As the four verses, ( 2-5 ) , are a figurative description of the infirmities that usually accompany old age, ver. ( 6 ) notices the circumstances which take place in the hour of death. If sin had not entered into the world, these infirmities would not have been known. Surely then the aged should reflect on the evil of sin.

○전12:1 결론
  전12:1 창조자를 기억하라
전 12:1 너는 청년의 때 곧 곤고한 날이 이르기 전,나는 아무 낙이 없다고 할 해가 가깝기 전에 너의 창조자를 기억하라 
전 12:2 해와 빛과 달과 별들이 어둡기 전에 비 뒤에 구름이 다시 일어나기 전에 그리하라 
전 12:3 그런 날에는 집을지키는 자들이 떨 것이며 힘있는 자들이 구부러질 것이며 맷돌질 하는 자들이 적으므로 그칠 것이며 창들로 내 어다 보는 자가 어두워질 것이며 
전 12:4 길거리 문들이 닫혀질 것이며 맷돌 소리가 적어질 것이며 새의 소리를 인하여 일어날 것이며 음악하는 여자들은 다 쇠 하여질 것이며 
전 12:5 그런 자들은 높은 곳을 두려워할 것이며 길에서는 놀랄 것이며 살구나무가 꽃이 필 것이며 메뚜기도 짐이 될 것이며 원 욕이 그 치리니 이는 사람이 자기 영원한 집으로 돌아가고 조문자들이 거리로 왕래하게 됨이라 
전 12:6 은줄이 풀리고 금 그릇이 깨어지고 항아리가 샘 곁에서 깨어지고 바퀴가 우물 위에서 깨어지고 
전 12:7 흙은 여전히 땅으로 돌아가고 신은 그 주신 하나님께로 돌아가기전에 기억하라 
 

Verses 8-14 Solomon repeats his text, VANITY OF VANITIES, ALL IS VANITY. These are the words of one that could speak by dear-bought experience of the vanity of the world, which can do nothing to ease men of the burden of sin. As he considered the worth of souls, he gave good heed to what he spake and wrote; words of truth will always be acceptable words. The truths of God are as goads to such as are dull and draw back, and nails to such as are wandering and draw aside; means to establish the heart, that we may never sit loose to our duty, nor be taken from it. The Shepherd of Israel is the Giver of inspired wisdom. Teachers and guides all receive their communications from him. The title is applied in Scripture to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The prophets sought diligently, what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. To write many books was not suited to the shortness of human life, and would be weariness to the writer, and to the reader; and then was much more so to both than it is now. All things would be vanity and vexation, except they led to this conclusion, That to fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole of man. The fear of God includes in it all the affections of the soul towards him, which are produced by the Holy Spirit. There may be terror where there is no love, nay, where there is hatred. But this is different from the gracious fear of God, as the feelings of an affectionate child. The fear of God, is often put for the whole of true religion in the heart, and includes its practical results in the life. Let us attend to the one thing needful, and now come to him as a merciful Saviour, who will soon come as an almighty Judge, when he will bring to light the things of darkness, and manifest the counsels of all hearts. Why does God record in his word, that ALL IS VANITY, but to keep us from deceiving ourselves to our ruin? He makes our duty to be our interest. May it be graven in all our hearts. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is all that concerns man.

 


전 12:8 전도자가 가로되 헛되고 헛되도다 모든 것이 헛되도다 


  전12:9 지혜 자를 따르라

전 12:9 전도자가 지혜로움으로 여전히 백성에게 지식을 가르쳤고 또 묵상하고 궁구하여 잠언을 많이 지었으며 

전 12:10 전도자가 힘써 아름다운 말을 구하였나니 기록한 것은 정직하여 진리의 말씀이니라 

전 12:11 지혜자의 말씀은 찌르는 채찍같고 회중의 스승의 말씀은 잘 박힌못 같으니 다 한 목자의 주신 바니라 

전 12:12 내 아들아 또 경계를 받으라 여러 책을 짓는 것은 끝이 없고 많이 공부하는 것은 몸을 피곤케 하느니라 


  전12:13 사람의 본분

전 12:13 일의 결국을 다 들었으니 하나님을 경외하고 그 명령을 지킬지어다 이것이 사람의 본분이니라 

전 12:14 하나님은 모든 행위와 모든 은밀한 일을 선악간에 심판하시리라 

 

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