...years ago ? than to answer the question, Where is the body of a man who died a thousand years ago ? " The dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it," Eccl. 12 : 7. Nothing is more natural and common than to speak of our intellectual...

...have scarce entered the lists. I see the door closed upon me just as I essay to cross the threshold. The pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel is broken at the cistern, before a draught of the refreshing waters is conveyed to me; and when the reward of past struggles...

...countenance and sendest him away. — When the silver cord is loosed, and the golden bowl is broken, when the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel is broken at the cistern, then man goeth to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets. The dust returns to the...

...seems as if this must follow as a matter of course. * Knapp. . CHAPTER III. ANNIHILATION AT DEATH. "And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to the God who gave it." — ECCLES. xii. 7. Concerning the duration of retribution, especially of...

...believed it.1 Even at the end of his book the description of the decay of the body in old age, until " the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it " is followed, not by any thought of the beatific vision which may there await it,...

...believed it.1 Even at the end of his book the description of the decay of the body in old age, until " the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it " is followed, not by any thought of the beatific vision which may there await it,...

...cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to Cod who gave it. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all Ecclesiastes 12:1-8 JS Vanity. ABOUT...

...that 'all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again' (3.20) and that there will come a time when 'the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it' (12.7), he is merely repeating the traditional view of the matter; and the same...

...to mankind — a loan that always ends up being withdrawn. So Qoheleth observes: When a mortal dies, "the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it" (Eccles. 12:7). 371 Since death thus constitutes mankind's ultimate deprivation,...

...tradition in Eccl. 12:7, on the other hand, seems to present the more "orthodox" view in which at death "dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." It would appear from this that Gen. 6:3 reflects this development in the understanding...