16. HOLDEN makes Ecclesiastes 7:16 the scoffing inference of the objector, and Ecclesiastes 7:16- : the answer of Solomon, now repentant. So ( Ecclesiastes 7:16- : ) the skeptic's objection; ( Ecclesiastes 7:16- : ) the answer. However, "Be not righteous over much," may be taken as Solomon's words, forbidding a self-made righteousness of outward performances, which would wrest salvation from God, instead of receiving it as the gift of His grace. It is a fanatical, pharisaical righteousness, separated from God; for the "fear of God" is in antithesis to it ( Ecclesiastes 7:18 ; Ecclesiastes 5:3 ; Ecclesiastes 5:7 ; Matthew 6:1-7 ; Matthew 9:14 ; Matthew 23:23 ; Matthew 23:24 ; Romans 10:3 ; 1 Timothy 4:3 ). over wise — ( Job 11:12 ; Romans 12:3 ; Romans 12:16 ), presumptuously self-sufficient, as if acquainted with the whole of divine truth. destroy thyself —expose thyself to needless persecution, austerities and the wrath of God; hence to an untimely death. "Destroy thyself" answers to "perisheth" ( Ecclesiastes 7:15 ); "righteous over much," to "a just man." Therefore in Ecclesiastes 7:15 it is self-justiciary, not a truly righteous man, that is meant. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-17" class="com-number"
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