 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 610 pages
...which Solomon gives for advice, Let thy garments be white, and let no oil be wanting to thine head ; go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for now God accepteth thy works ; Eccl. ix. 7, 8. And this consideration, as it never... | |
 | John Dayman - 1837 - 182 pages
...perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. 7. Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart ; for God now accepteth thy works. 8. Let thy garments be always white ; and let thy head... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Brownists - 1837 - 582 pages
...kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink : What not at all? To him alone is it not said, Go eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a cheerful heart ? who should eat or drink, or haste to outward things more than he ? not immoderately : so as he should... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 586 pages
...kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink : What not at all? To him alone is it not said, Go eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a cheerful heart? who should eat or drink, or haste to outward things more than he ? not immoderately : so as he should... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. 7 d to your mountain ? 2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, Th merry heart ; 8 for God now accepteth thy works. Let thy garments be always white ; and let 9 thy head... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart ; For God now accepteth thy works. 
