Wisely Laying Our End to Heart
This article provides an exegetical commentary on Ecclesiastes 7:1-6, exploring Solomon's counterintuitive wisdom that contemplating death and mourning produces spiritual benefit and moral formation. Through careful exposition of the text, Miersma applies the passage to believers' daily walk, emphasizing how sober reflection on life's end and receptiveness to wise rebuke foster heart transformation and sanctification.
Previous article in this series: April 1, 2015, p. 299. A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 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. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of...
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