 | James E. Smith - Religion - 2007 - 878 pages
...particular respect there is an advantage in death. B. The Value of Mourning (7:2-4). "Better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting." Koheleth is recommending the sober, earnest life. Wiser, more enduring lessons can be learned where... | |
 | Austra Reinis - Religion - 2007 - 316 pages
...sick and you visited me'; Gal 6[:2], 'Bear one another's burdens'; and Eccl 7[:2],'It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of drinking.'180 Though four formulas of confession are given, no formula is provided for pronouncing... | |
 | John Elsadai - 2008 - 206 pages
...Solomon saw the funeral home as a better place in the world. We read in Ecclesiastes, "/? 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" (Ecclesiastes 7:12). Unlike... | |
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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. 
