Ecclesiastes 11
DOYLYEcclesiastes 11:10
- Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart.] Sorrow is here put for the cause of sorrow. Live not so in youth as to bring sorrow in old age. Chap. XII. Solomon, to prove that a future state of retribution was the object which he held out through
the whole of his exhortation, as the only adequate sanction of virtue, the only sure prop of religion, closes
this admirable work with the solemn admonition, “Remember now thy Creator,” &c. Then, after describing,
with singular beauty and philosophick precision, the symptoms of decay preceding that awful hour, when “the dust shall return to the earth as it was,” &c. he imprints upon the heart, in the two last verses, that great truth which it was his chief object to promulgate and enforce. Dr. Graves. Ver. 1. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.] “Remember thy Creator,” that is, honour,
fear, love, obey, and serve Him; in a word, act as becomes one who is mindful of God, and bears Him continually in his thoughts. Abp. Tillotson.
— thy Creator! The Hebrew is, “thy Creators,” in the plural. The plural is employed to shew the plurality of Persons in the unity of essence, namely, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. For these three Divine Persons consulted together concerning the creation of man, Gen. i. 26. Jones of Nayland, Parkhurst.