to a man after his death from all his labour which he laboured under the sun in this world, except he studied the word of God, in order to receive a good reward in the world to come from before the Lord of the world?’ In order to remind the reader of this meaning of the words ‘under the sun,’ I have whenever they occur paraphrased them by ‘in this hot work-day world’――not that this paraphrase is quite satisfactory, but it is the best I could find. To answer the above question, Koheleth cites _eight_ different instances; four from natural, and four from moral experience. Those we might call the eight _un_beatitudes of this sermon. 4 _One_ generation passeth │ I. A generation comes, and away, and _another_ generation │ that generation departs. But cometh: but the earth abideth │ the earth the same abides. for ever. │ (4.) =A generation comes= (_i.e._ proceeds; the word occurs five times in the passage). =A generation sets= (using exactly the same word as for the setting of the sun in the next verse), =but the earth to the age abideth= (_i.e._ remains the same as it was ‘to the age’ לעלם――this word is used in a technical sense, and occurs chapters i. 4, 10; ii. 16; iii. 11, 14; ix. 6; and xii. 5 in this book. The LXX. render by αἰών, which Bengel says is ‘sæculum præsens, mundus in sua indole cursu et censu.’ Hengstenberg observes that it is not an absolutely endless eternity, but only a future of unlimited length. Bengel’s definition, ‘the present period in its quality, course, and account,’ is exactly what the word signifies in this book. It is to be noticed that each instance of change is followed by a sentence which points out that this change is resultless. In the first, the fluctuating and fleeting generations or life-periods of man contrast with the absolute endurance of an unchanged order of things). ‘The great mill-wheel of existence only revolves for the same cogs to come uppermost again and again.’――[Hamilton, _Royal Preacher_.] 5 The sun also ariseth, │ II. Bursts forth the sun, and the sun goeth down, and │ and sets that sun again; and ¹hasteth to his place where │ wearily advancing, bursts he arose. │ forth as he did before. │ ¹ _Hebrew_ panteth. │ (5.) =And rises= (_i.e._ ‘bursts out’ or ‘irradiates’) =the sun, and sets the sun= (as ‘sun’ is repeated, the second is equivalent to that same sun) =and towards his place panting= (this word ‘pant,’ שאף, occurs Job vii. 2; Psalm lvii. 3; Psalm cxix. 131, and denotes earnest desire: the metaphor is a very beautiful one in this context)――=rising= (irradiating) =is he there=.