 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 640 pages
...imports its continued existence, appears from another passage in the .same book (chap. iii. 21) : " Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and...spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?" Here the " going downward to the earth" plainly denotes the extinction of the brute spirit, in opposition... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...All go unto 21 one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit 3 ul hill : 2 And he "fenced it, and gathered out the stones there dowu22 ward to the earth? Wherefore 1 perceive that there it nothing better, than that aman should... | |
 | T. H. Hudson - Christian socialism - 1839 - 338 pages
...for which no other creature exists, and for aught we can possibly tell, that purpose is eternal. " Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and...spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?" How presumptuous are those, who, with evidence and knowledge of these things, assert, that man is... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...l • about 977. or the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit f of man that f ? 22 e Wherefore I perceived that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own... | |
 | William Bucknell - Incubators - 1839 - 72 pages
...according to the character and intensity of the disease, the immediate consequence. * " The spirit of a man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward," Eccl. ch. iii. v. 2 1 , are arbitrary terms, beautifully expressive of the vast and immense difference... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - Philosophy - 1997 - 206 pages
...a beast; for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and...spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? —Ecc. 3:l8-2I. Job remarked: "For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt."-—II:12.... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - History - 1998 - 1284 pages
...knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?''" or of beast, as in the Book of Solomon: 'Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth...the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?'94 Pneuma is also used of the corporeal 'spirit' which is called wind; for this is the name... | |
 | Bibles - 1999 - 68 pages
...beast, for all is vanity. "All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and...spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? 22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works,... | |
 | Sue Hosking, Dianne Schwerdt - English literature - 1999 - 228 pages
...'befalleth beasts . . . yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast . . . Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and...spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?' Like Dr Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Gothic tale, Hester is both fascinated and horrified... | |
 | James White, Uriah Smith - Seventh-Day Adventists - 2012 - 364 pages
...the child. It was his breath; and this, the breath of life, returned, and he lived again. Eccl. 3:21: "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward,...spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" Solomon does not here assert that there is a difference between the spirit of man and beast, for he... | |
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... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place;... 
