Chuándàoshū 8:11

11 Yīnwei duàndìng zuì míng , bù lìkè shī xíng , suǒyǐ shìrén mǎn xīn zuò è .

Chuándàoshū 8:11 Meaning and Commentary

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence [against] an evil work is not executed
speedily
Any evil work done by magistrates, or others, against which the wrath of God is revealed from heaven, and is threatened with his vengeance; the decree is gone forth, the sentence is passed, God is determined upon punishment; but there is a delay of it, he exercises patience and longsuffering to answer some end of his, both towards his own people and the wicked; as well as to display some of his own perfections; but because so it is, the judgment comes not at once; therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do
evil;
or their "heart is full to do evil" ^F14; they have not only a fulness of sin in them naturally as is in every man's heart; but they are filled with resolution, boldness, and courage, to commit sin, promising themselves impurity from the seeming delay of justice; such an abuse do they make of the patience and forbearance of God; they become more and more hardened in sin and bent upon the commission of it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 (er twvel alm) "plenum ad faciendum malum", Pagninus, Montanus; "praegnano ad faciendum malum", Gussetius, p. 469.

Chuándàoshū 8:11 In-Context

9 Zhè yīqiè wǒ dōu jiàn guo . yĕ zhuān xīn chákǎo rì guāng zhī Xiàsuǒ zuò de yīqiè shì . yǒu shí zhè rén guǎnxiá nà rén , líng rén shòu haì .

10 Wǒ jiàn è rén máizàng , guī rù fùnmù . yòu jiàn xíng zhèngzhí shì de , líkāi shèng dì , zaì chéng zhōng beì rén wàngjì . zhè yĕ shì xū kōng .

11 Yīnwei duàndìng zuì míng , bù lìkè shī xíng , suǒyǐ shìrén mǎn xīn zuò è .

12 Zuì rén suīrán zuò è bǎi cì , dǎo xiǎng chángjiǔ de nián rì . ránér wǒ zhún zhīdào , jìngwèi shén de , jiù shì zaì tā miànqián jìngwèi de rén , zhōngjiǔ bì dé fú lè .

13 È rén què bùdé fú lè , yĕ bùdé chángjiǔ de nián rì . zhè nián rì hǎoxiàng yǐngér , yīn tā bù jìngwèi shén .