...; which the scrip-1 ture taketh special notice of in other texts, as in that of Ecclesiastes, " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever."$ I conceive the latter may here be alluded to, viz. the earth's long continuance, as in some low proportion...

...as any one may see by referring to the entire verse, better translated in our English Bible : " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever." The contrast is between generations dying and the world abiding ; without any allusion whatever to...

...Withdrawn, another comes, and this makes room, For that which follows. Mightiest realms decay, . f [4] One generation passeth away, and another generation...cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever. * * Thus the words run in our Translation ; and as some may be therefore greatly surprised, that we have given so...

...And Dr. Grainger quoted to himself first the somewhat saddening reflection of the Eastern king, " One generation passeth away and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever ; " and then the calm conclusion of the aged apostle, as he looked on at life from quite another standpoint,...

...earth : as Habb. iii. 6. " The everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow." Or Eccles. i. 4. " One generation passeth away, and another...generation cometh, but the earth abideth for ever." But because this word is sometimes limited to the Jewish dispensation, to the life of man on earth,...

...vanities; all' is vanity. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? 5 The sun also arUeth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. t> The wind...

...of Impediments. XVII. New Social Order in America. XVIII. Conclusion. ADVANCEMENT SOCIETY. I. " ONE generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." Is the change in its generations the only change in society ? Are the actors alone renewed, and the...

...for ever. Sec Exodus xxvii. 21. xxviii. 43, &c. 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 for ever." And this last is the longest temporal duration that such a term is ever used to signify. For the duration...

...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. All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the...

...vanities ; all is vanity. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which be taketh under the Bun 1 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the •un goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. 6 The wind...