04-01-2014, 11:01 PM
Ecclesiastes 5: 13 - 18 (Alexander):
13. There is the sickness of evil that I saw under the sun: the riches that are guarded for their owner for the sake of his evil.
14. And he makes his wealth by corrupt means, and he brings forth a son and there is nothing in his hand.
15. As he came out of his mother's womb naked, he shall return to go back from where he came, and there will be nothing of what he planted to go back with him in his hand.
16. And this too is an evil sickness, for thus goes that which came, and what benefit is all the work for the spirit?
17. And also he eats through darkness all his days, and with great anger and wrath, and through lamentations and sickness.
18. This is the thing that I, Qohlat, saw; it is good and beautiful to eat and to drink and to show goodness through all the works that one performs under the sun, for the days that Maryah has given him are numbered, for that is his endowment.
Verse 15 is important for the Study: "As he came out of his mother's womb naked, he shall return to go back from where he came, and there will be nothing of what he planted to go back with him in his hand."
This may have been a Template for the discussion between Jesus and Nicodemus. Note again that this contemplation of "Returning-to-the-Mother" carries with it the idea of "Returning-to-a-State-of-Freedom", a particular Type of Freedom where one is happy to "show goodness through all the works that one performs under the sun."
CW
13. There is the sickness of evil that I saw under the sun: the riches that are guarded for their owner for the sake of his evil.
14. And he makes his wealth by corrupt means, and he brings forth a son and there is nothing in his hand.
15. As he came out of his mother's womb naked, he shall return to go back from where he came, and there will be nothing of what he planted to go back with him in his hand.
16. And this too is an evil sickness, for thus goes that which came, and what benefit is all the work for the spirit?
17. And also he eats through darkness all his days, and with great anger and wrath, and through lamentations and sickness.
18. This is the thing that I, Qohlat, saw; it is good and beautiful to eat and to drink and to show goodness through all the works that one performs under the sun, for the days that Maryah has given him are numbered, for that is his endowment.
Verse 15 is important for the Study: "As he came out of his mother's womb naked, he shall return to go back from where he came, and there will be nothing of what he planted to go back with him in his hand."
This may have been a Template for the discussion between Jesus and Nicodemus. Note again that this contemplation of "Returning-to-the-Mother" carries with it the idea of "Returning-to-a-State-of-Freedom", a particular Type of Freedom where one is happy to "show goodness through all the works that one performs under the sun."
CW