...discourse does not deal now with material meats, he will show by what follows ; namely, "It is better to go to the house of! mourning than to go to the house of feasting." 3 And so in the present passage he proceeds to add ; "And (what) will show to his soul good in its...

...only produce a desert. This may be one meaning of Ecclesiastes 7:3: "Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better." The deepest insights are learned in sorrow, rather than amusement, as we are driven by loss to evaluate...

...the beginning and end introduced earlier. It is as if he says: I said to you that it is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of drinking, in order that the living give to his heart the end of man. He refers to the end of the thing...

...tune with God, Depression we might call it, wrote; Ecclesiastes 7:3 "Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better." I could not disagree more!!! Furthermore, he sez in Ecclesiastes 3: 'To everything there is a season,...

...precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. (Ecclesiastes 7:1 & 3) Massage; If there is anyone who should be continually grateful, it is the Christian....

...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...

...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 other...