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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: 17 His glory shall not descend after him. Though whiles he lived he blessed his soul: '8 And men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. He shall go to the generation of his fathers; 19 They shall never see light. Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, *, Is like the beasts that perish. 17. Cp. Job i. 21; Eccl. v. 15; i Tim. vi. 7; and parallels from classical authors: e.g. Propertius IV. 5. 13: Haud ullas portabis opes Acherontis ad undas: Nudus at inferna, stulte, vehere, rate. 18. blessed his soul] Congratulated himself on his good fortune, flattering himself that he was beyond the reach of misfortune. Cp. Deut. xxix. 19; Luke xii. 19. men will praise thee] Men praise thee (R.V.). The words are a parenthesis, addressed to the rich man. The unthinking multitude (cp. v. 13 b) worship success and wealth. They see nothing wrong in the selfish misuse of riches. 19. He shall go] There should be a comma at the end of v. 18, as in R.V., for v. 19 forms the apodosis to it. The Heb. verb may be either the 3rd person fern., the subject being the soul, or the 2nd person masc.; so either, 'Though he blessed his soul...it shall go' &c.: or, 'Though men praise thee...thou shall go.' The first alternative is preferable. The second involves an intolerably harsh change of person (' Thou shall go...his fathers'). For the phrase cp. Gen. xv. 15, "Thou shall go to thy fathers in peace." The more usual expression for dying is, "he was gathered to his people," or, "his fathers." Families are contemplated as reunited in Sheol, where existence is a shadowy reflection of life on earth. they shall never see light] 'They' refers to the rich men. The Heb. mind passes from the class to the individual...
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