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Ecclesiastes 8:15

Ecclesiastes 8:15 (WEB)

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

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  • “For when he says in another book, which is called Ecclesiastes, “There is no good for a man, except that he should eat and drink,” what can he be more credibly understood to say, than what belongs to the participation of this table which the Mediator of the New Testament Himself, the…” — editor's note: Eccles. ii. 24; iii. 13; v. 18; viii. 15.

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