Eclesiastés 1:10

10 ¿Hay algo de que se pueda decir: He aquí esto es nuevo? Ya fue en los siglos que nos han precedido

Eclesiastés 1:10 Meaning and Commentary

Ecclesiastes 1:10

Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, see, this [is]
new?
&c.] This is an appeal to all men for the truth of the above observation, and carries in it a strong denial that there is anything new under the sun; and is an address to men to inquire into the truth of it, and thoroughly examine it, and see if they can produce any material objection to it; look into the natural world, and the same natural causes will be seen producing the same effects; or into the moral world, and there are the same virtues, and their contrary; or into the political world, and the same schemes are forming and pursuing, and which issue in the same things, peace or war; or into the learned world, and the same languages, arts, and sciences, are taught and learned; and the same things said over again ^F9: or into the mechanic world, and the same trades and businesses are carrying on: or the words may be considered as a concession, and carry in them the form of an objection, "there is a thing ^F11 whereof it may be said", or a man may say, "see, this is new"; so the Targum; there were some things in Solomon's time it is allowed that might be objected, as there are in ours, to which the answer is, it hath been already of old time which was before us;
what things are reckoned new are not so; they were known and in use in ages past, long before we had a being. R. Alshech takes the words to be an assertion, and not an interrogation, and interprets it of a spiritual temple in time to come, which yet was created before the world was.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 "Nullum est jam dictum, quod non dictum sit prius", Terent Prolog. Eunuch. v. 41.
F11 (rbd vy) "est quidpiam", Pagninus, Mercerus, Gejerus; "est res", Drusius, Cocceius, Rambachius.

Eclesiastés 1:10 In-Context

8 Todas las cosas andan en trabajo más de lo que el hombre pueda decir; los ojos nunca se sacian de ver, ni los oídos de oír

9 ¿Qué es lo que fue? Lo mismo que será. ¿Qué es lo que ha sido hecho? Lo mismo que se hará; y nada hay nuevo debajo del sol

10 ¿Hay algo de que se pueda decir: He aquí esto es nuevo? Ya fue en los siglos que nos han precedido

11 No hay memoria de los primeros, ni tampoco de los postreros habrá memoria en los que serán después

12 Yo el Predicador fui rey sobre Israel en Jerusalén