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Ecclesiastes 7:27-28, verse 28 specifically, was stated to me by a friend and single Pastor from Europe in a three hour video Skype this morning, in regard to relationships with women.
This was after my eight hour shift of corporate security, ending my work week and a late night dinner out.
Strange hours.
He also reasons I should seek ministry work as a Revered, which I am completely unconvinced of, and always have been since it was under a consideration, although I would be very interested in teaching theology in a church, certainly.
Ecclesiastes 7:27-28
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
In regard to wisdom and goodness
27 See, this have I found, says Qoheleth, adding one to one to find the sum.
28 What my soul still seeks and has yet to find is this: “One man out of a thousand have I found, but a woman among them all I have not found.”
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Donald C. Fleming noted in regards to the context of wisdom and goodness: 'If women have a low rating in the author's judgment, so to do men-only one better over a sample of a thousand!' Fleming (1986: 698).
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'Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 7:23-29
Solomon, in his search into the nature and reason of things, had been miserably deluded. But he here speaks with godly sorrow. He alone who constantly aims to please God, can expect to escape; the careless sinner probably will fall to rise no more. He now discovered more than ever the evil of the great sin of which he had been guilty, the loving many strange women,'
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My reasoning is that in this rather secularized age there are many, even in the Church that lack significant, Biblical, Theological and Philosophical training and a strong spiritual commitment to the Biblical God.
Therefore, Ecclesiastes 7:27-28 may indeed be relevant.
However, I have to primarily through prayer, study and fellowship be concerned with my own wisdom, spiritual standing and goodness with the Biblical God; secondarily concerned with others that I can impact and influence less.
FLEMING, DONALD C. (1986) 'Ecclesiastes' in F.F. Bruce (ed.), The International Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids, Zondervan.
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