 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pagina’s
...all go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again ; who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?— Eccles. iii. 2. 20, 21. As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pagina’s
...discern between " the spirit of man that goeth " upwards," man breathing with his countenance erect, and " the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?" Certainly no one, without the Jielp of revelation from God, could discover how great a difference... | |
 | Reginald Courtenay - 1843 - 482 pagina’s
...beast ; for all is vanity. All go unto one place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of a man that goeth upward,*...spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?" To which we may add the words in the latter part of the same book, " Then shall the dust return... | |
 | Samuel Wright - 1843 - 74 pagina’s
...harmony of creation — to the other, for it discovers to him the difference between " the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth." To reject this doctrine, is either to avow that, "a man hath no * See Green's Vital Dynamics, p. 38.... | |
 | George Bull - 1844 - 660 pagina’s
...be allowed so to call him by an anticipation) thus deriding the notion of the soul's immortality, " Who knoweth the spirit of a man that goeth upward,...the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth1?" As if he had said, As for the talk of man's soul being immortal, who can demonstrate that... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1844 - 594 pagina’s
...materials needful to make the New Year a happy one to an immortal being. A wide distinction between the spirit of a man that goeth upward and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward is to be found in reflection, or the power of looking backward, and anticipation, or the power of looking... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - 1997 - 194 pagina’s
...All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" (Ecc. 3:18-21). Man is related to everything in his entire environment — the beasts, the birds, the... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - 1997 - 206 pagina’s
...vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? —Ecc. 3:l8-2I. Job remarked: "For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt."-—II:12.... | |
 | J. Sidlow Baxter - 1997 - 260 pagina’s
...from the breath of God. And what about that next verse (v. 21)? It asks, "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" Does not that "upward" versus "downward" indicate a sharp opposite between man and the non-human animals?... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1998 - 1284 pagina’s
...spirit of man which is in him?''" or of beast, as in the Book of Solomon: 'Who knoweth the spirit of earth?'94 Pneuma is also used of the corporeal 'spirit' which is called wind; for this is the name... | |
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... them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that... 
