 | Thomas Brooks - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...believer's dying day is his best day,6 and why then should he be unwilling to die ? Eccles. vii. 1, 'A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.' In respect of profit, pleasure, peace, safety, company, glory,... | |
 | James Stratten - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...holiness, and joy, and love, of the beatific vision. THE DAY OF DEATH BETTER THAN THE DAY OF BIRTH. "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." ECCLESIASTES VII, 1. IT may not be improper at the conclusion of... | |
 | William Blessley - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 88
...be the case here, what must it be hereafter, where all is holy, calm, serene?" "ECCLES. vii. 1. — 'A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of our birth.' This can be applicable to the believer only, for this world is the... | |
 | 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...was preached to an attentive congregation, by the writer of this memoir from Ecclesiastes vii. ls *' A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." EP • • •••"'. ••.-•!-.' Ifii ' MRS. MOUNTJOT;';:... | |
 | 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 1216
...after him under the sun? CHAPTER TIL Remedies against vanity — The difficulty of getting wisdom. ied death than the day of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...he spendeth -as a shadow ? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun ? CHAP. VII. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of Jl- death than the day of one's birth. 0 reputation ! dearer far than life, To its first purity and... | |
 | William Maclardie Bunting - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...affections. Their "name is as ointment poured forth." Nay, we wonder not at the sentiment of Solomon: "A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." And again : " Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead,... | |
 | Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...and Fear of God. CHAP. VII. 1-22. 1. In contempt of the world and its foolish lasts. (V«R». 1-7.) 1 A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the 2 day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the... | |
 | 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...life which he spendeth as a shadow ? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the euu ? A good name is better than precious ointment : and the day of death than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house... | |
 | baroness Constance (de Rothschild) Flower Battersea - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...and looked upon its end as a welcome release. This sentiment he expressed in many different ways : ' A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house... | |
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 
