Geneva Bible Notes: Ecclesiastes 3

Ecclesiastes 3:1 ^! All things haue their time.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 ^a He speaketh of this diuersitie of time for two causes, first to declare that there is none in this worlde perpetual: next to teache vs not to be grieued, if we haue not all things at once according to our desires, nether enjoye them so long as we wolde with.

Ecclesiastes 3:10 ^b Read {Chap. 1, 13}

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ^c God hathe giuen man a desire and affection to seke out the things of this worlde and to labour therein.

Ecclesiastes 3:13 ^d Read {Chap. 2, 24} and these places declare that we shulde do all things with sobrietie, & in the feare of God, forasmuche as he giueth not his giftes to the intent that they shulde be abused.

Ecclesiastes 3:14 ^e That is, man shal neuer be able to let Gods worke, but as he hathe determined, so it shal come to passe.

Ecclesiastes 3:14 ^! The workes of God are perfite and cause vs to feare him.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 ^f God onelie causeth that which is past, to returne.

Ecclesiastes 3:17 ^! God shal judge bothe the juste, and the injuste.

Ecclesiastes 3:17 ^g Meaning, with God, howsoeuer man neglect his duetie.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 ^h And made them pure in their first creation.

Ecclesiastes 3:19 ⁱ Man is not able by his reason, & judgement to put difference betwene man & beast, as touching those things whereunto both are subject: or the eye can not judge anie other wise of a man being dead, then of a beast, which is dead: yet by the worde of God and faith we easely knowe the diuersitie, as {vers 21}

Ecclesiastes 3:21 ^k Meaning, that reason can not coomprehend that which beleueth herein.

Ecclesiastes 3:22 ^l By the often repetition of this sentence, as {Chap. 2, 24 & chap 3, 12, and 22 chap. 5, 17 & chap 8, 15} he declareth that man by reason can comprehend nothing better in this life then to vse the giftes of God soberly & confortably: for to knowe farther is a special gifte of God reueilded by his Spirit.