And turns around to the north;
The wind whirls about continually,
And comes again on its circuit.
Yet the sea is not full;
To the place from which the rivers come,
There they return again.
Man cannot express it.
aThe eye is not satisfied with seeing,
Nor the ear filled with hearing.
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.
“See, this is new”?
It has already been in ancient times before us.
Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come
By those who will come after.
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If you remember the sermon from three weeks ago, we spent a bit of time looking at the word remembrance, as it is translated in Ecclesiastes 1:11. It is from the word zikrôn (zik-rone'): a memento, or memorable thing, day, or writing; a memorial, or record. I mentioned at that time, in the ancient Hebrew we find it concisely means, “A recalling of events of the past,” or “To act upon a past event.” In this world men do not learn from their past, and even the best wisdom and knowledge under the sun produces pain and sorrow. Within the ancient Hebrew language of symbolic characters, I also mentioned, as one of the points it meant, “A remembering, and action, based on a past event.”
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