| Matthew Henry - 1839 - 414 pages
...blossom, and there be no fruit in the vine. Has God now accepted thce, and thy works in Jesus Christ, Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart ; Eccl. ix. 7. It is the will of God that his people should be a cheerful people, that... | |
| Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thirty that is done under the sun. 7 ^f have one purse : 15 My son, walk not | thou in the way with merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. 8 Let thy garments be always white ; and let thy head... | |
| Religion - 1839 - 536 pages
...his men, when it is remarked that he was a priest of the Most High God, Gen. 14: 18. Solomon says, " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine, "rn with a cheerful heart, for Gnd now acceptet/t thy works." Eccles. 9: 7. The author of the 1 041... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 pages
...men, when it is remarked that he was a priest of the Most High God, Gen. 14: 18. Solomon says, «• Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine, 17^ with a cheerful heart, for God now accepteth thy works." Eccles. 9 : 1. The author of the 104th... | |
| Archibald Douglas (of Reading.) - 1840 - 408 pages
...as he accepts ? What may not such expect who are objects of divine favour ? Go then, O Christian, " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a cheerful heart, let thy garments be always white, and let thy head lack no ointment, for God now accepteth thy works."... | |
| Christian life - 1840 - 638 pages
...eating your morsel alone, and not inviting your poor father to the banquet. The Holy Ghost saith, " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart ; for God now accepteth thy works." And thos hast been feasting on the fatted calf ; and... | |
| Isaac Klein - Religion - 1979 - 650 pages
...fast joyously, since according to the Midrash, at the close of Yom Kippur a heavenly voice proclaims: "Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted thy works" (Eccles. Rabbah 9:7). UNIT XVI THE MINOR FESTIVALS... | |
| Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. 7 f d they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow afte merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. 8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head... | |
| Leah S. Marcus - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 340 pages
...fatalism, the last stanza of "Corinna" comes directly out of the lessons and epistles proper for May 1 : Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. . . . Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all... | |
| Northrop Frye - Religion - 1991 - 224 pages
...pessimistic melancholy turns into something very different as he goes on and begins to say things like 'Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart.' Wisdom for him is a force moving against the normal flow of time, going from the 'vanity'... | |
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