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Ecclesiastes 12 Ecclesiastes 12:1

Ecclesiastes 12 NLT

Ecclesiastes 12:1

1 Don’t let the excitement of youth cause

you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your
youth before you grow old and say, “Life is
not pleasant anymore.”

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Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy
youth
Or "Creators" F2; as "Makers", ( Job 35:10 ) (
Psalms 149:2 ) ( Isaiah 54:5 ) ; for more than one
were concerned, as in the creation of all things in
general, so of man in particular, ( Genesis 1:26 ) ;
and these are neither more nor fewer than three;
and are Father, Son, Spirit; the one God that has
created men, ( Malachi 2:10 ) ; the Father, who is
the God of all flesh, and the Father of spirits; the
former both of the bodies and souls of men, (
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Jeremiah 31:27 ) ( Hebrews 12:9 ) ; the Son, by
whom all things are created; for he that is the
Redeemer and husband of his church, which are
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
characters and relations peculiar to the Son, is the
Creator, ( Isaiah 43:1 ) ( 54:5 ) ; and the Holy Spirit
not only garnished the heavens, and moved upon
Ecclesiastes 12:1 In-Context
the face of the waters, but is the Maker of men, and
gives them life, ( Job 33:4 ) . Now this God,
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be "remembered" by young youmen;to
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your Creator. Honor therehimisinayour
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are apt to be forgetful of; that this God is a God of
you grow old and say, “Life is not pleasant anymore.”
great and glorious perfections, omniscient,
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Remember him omnipotent,
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who
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and to your eyes, rain clouds
righteousness, and them also; and that he is in
continually darken your sky.
Christ a God gracious, merciful, and pardoning
3iniquity,
Remember transgression,
him beforeand yoursin: they should
legs—the guards of
remember him under this character, as a "Creator",
your house—start to tremble; and before your
who has made them, and not they themselves; that
shoulders—the
they are made strong by himmen—stoop.
out of the dust Remember
of the earth, him
and must
before yourreturn to it; that
teeth—your fewhe has brought
remaining them into
servants—stop
being, and preserved them in it, and favoured them
grinding; and before your eyes—the women looking
with the blessings of his providence, which are all
through
from him the windows—see
that has made them: dimly. and they should

4remember
Rememberthe end for which theytoare made, to
him before the door life’s
glorify him; and in what state man was originally
opportunities is closed andholy;
the sound ofhework fades.
made, upright, pure, and but that now is a
Now
fallen
you creature,
rise at the andfirst
such chirping
are they, of impure
the birds, andbut
unrighteous, impotent willand weak,
then all their sounds grow faint.abominable in the
sight of God, unworthy to live, and unfit to die;
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Remember him before
transgressors youlaws
of the become fearful
of their of falling
Creator,
which
and worryis deserving
about danger of death:
in thethey should
streets; remember
before your
what God their Creators, Father, Son, and Spirit,
hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you
must have done or must do for them, if ever they
drag along without
are saved; the Father energy
mustlike havea dying
chosen grasshopper,
them in
Christ
and theunto salvation;
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longerhave givensexual
inspires his Son to
desire.
redeem, and must send his Spirit into their hearts
Remember him before you near the grave, your
to create them anew; the Son must have been
everlasting home,assumed
surety for them, when thetheir mourners
nature, will
and weepdiedatin
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your room and stead; and the Spirit must
regenerate and make them new creatures,
enlighten their minds, quicken their souls, and
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under to him, and their duty to him; they
should remember, with thankfulness, the favours
they have received fromFREE him, and,10-Day
with reverence
and humility, the distance Prayer
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and them as creatures:Plus, they getshould
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love him cordially and sincerely; and offers to
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him with a
godly fear; to worship him Email in a spiritual
Address manner; to
set him always before them, and never forget him.
And all this they should do Get Mydays
"in the Copy [their]
youth"; which are their best and choicest day in
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which to serve him is most desirable by him,

acceptable to him; who ordered the first of the ripe
fruits and creatures of the first year to be offered to
him: and then are men best able to serve him, when
their bodies are healthful, strong, and vigorous;
their senses quick, and the powers and faculties of
their souls capable of being improved and
enlarged: and to delay the service of him to old
age, as it would be very ungrateful and exceeding
improper, so no man can be sure of arriving to it;
and if he should, yet what follows is enough to
determine against such a delay; while the evil
days come not;
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meaning the days of old age; said to be evil, not
with respect to the evil of fault or sin; so all days
are evil, or sin is committed in every age, in infancy,
in childhood, in youth, in manhood, as well as in old
age: but with respect to the evil of affliction and
trouble which attend it, as various diseases; yea,
that itself is a disease, and an incurable one; much
weakness of body, decay of intellects, and many
other things, which render life very troublesome
and uncomfortable , as well as unfit for religious
services; nor the years draw nigh, when thou
shall say, I have no pleasure in
them;
that is, corporeal pleasure; no sensual pleasure;
sight, taste, and hearing, being lost, or in a great
measure
What is the gone; which
Daniel wasinBarzillai's
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Foods at eighty
to
years
Eat and of age:
Avoid though some ancient persons have
their senses quick and vigorous, and scarce
perceive any difference between youth and age;
but such instances are not common: and there are
also some things that ancient persons take
pleasure in, as in fields and gardens, and the
culture of them, as Cicero observes; and
particularly learned men take as much delight in
their studies in old age as in youth, and in
instructing others; and, as the same writer says,

``what is more pleasant than to see an old man,

attended and encircled with youth, at their studies
under him?''
and especially a good man, in old age, has pleasure
in reflecting on a life spent in the ways, work, and
worship of God; and in having had, through the
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God, New Year’s Resolutions,
his conversation Consider
in the world in
God’s Plan
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and Yoursincerity;
Life Thisas
Year
also in present
communion with God, and in the hopes and views
of the glories of another world: but if not religious
persons, they are strangers to spiritual pleasure,
which only is to be had in wisdom's ways; such can
neither look back with pleasure on a life spent in
sin; nor forward with pleasure, at death and
eternity, and into another world; see ( 2 Samuel
19:35 ) ( Psalms 90:10 ) .

FOOTNOTES:

F2 (Kyarwb) "Creatorum tuorum", Drusius, Gejerus,

Rambachius; so Broughton.
F3 Plautus in Aulular. Act. 1. Sc. 1. v. 4. Menaechm.
Act. 5. Sc. 2. v. 6. calls old age, "mala aetas"; and
What
the Is Blasphemy
winter of old age,of the Holy Spirit
Trinummus, Act. 2.and
Sc.Is
3.This
v. 7.
Sin Unforgivable?
And Pindar, (ghrav oulomenon) , Pyth. Ode 10. so
Theognis, v. 272, 776, 1006. And Homer, (ghrav)
(lutrov) , Iliad. 10. v. 79. &. 23. v. 644. "Tristis
senectus", Virgil. Aenid. 6.
F4 De Seuectute, c. 14, 15.
F5 Ibid. c. 8.

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