...vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth...

...flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."* Again in Ecdesiastes, " one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." Le Cat, who was a man of strong abilities, did not sit down quietly under this scriptural condemnation....

...no profit under the sun, What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. The sun alsoariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth...

...life hi general, which he illustrates by the continual changes which we behold in the natural world. 4 [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh : but the earth abidcth for ever, or, as some would render if, for 5 an uncertain indeterminate time. The sun also...

...nll is vanity. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which lie taketh under the sun ? 4 ^f One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hastcth to his place where he arose. 6 The wind...

...yieldeth him no during profit at all : both he and it are swept away by death, as if they bad never been. I. 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abidethfor ever. There is no stability here : one generation of men goeth, another comes, none stayeth...

...ever. See Exod. xxvii. 21. chap, xxviii. 43, Sec Sometimes it means as long as the world stands. So in Eccles. i. 4. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth/or ever. And this last is the longest temporal duration that such a term is ever used to signify....

...See Exed..xxvii. 2-1., chap, xxviii. *S, 8cc Sometimes it means as long as the world stands. So in Eccles. i. 4. One generation, passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth./ir ever. And this last is the longest temporal duration that such a term is ever used to signify....

...great city, through which some travellers are past, some are passing, while other* are only coming in, Eccles. i. 4. " One generation passeth away, and another...generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." Death is an inexorable, irresistible messenger, who cannot be diverted from executing his orders, by...

...city, through which some travellers are past, some are passing, •while others are only coming in, Eccles. i. 4. " One generation passeth away, and another...generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." Death is an inexorable, irresistible messenger, who cannot be diverted from executing his orders, by...