...neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."* Again in Ecdesiastes, " one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." Le Cat, who was a man of strong abilities, did not sit down quietly under this scriptural condemnation....

...under the sun, What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. The sun alsoariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth...

...vanity. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which lie taketh under the sun ? 4 ^f One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hastcth to his place where he arose. 6 The wind...

...travellers are past, some are passing, while other* are only coming in, Eccles. i. 4. " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." Death is an inexorable, irresistible messenger, who cannot be diverted from executing his orders, by...

...travellers are past, some are passing, •while others are only coming in, Eccles. i. 4. " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." Death is an inexorable, irresistible messenger, who cannot be diverted from executing his orders, by...

...travellers are past, Some arc passing while others are only coming in, JSccl. i. 4. *' One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever." Death is anjnexorable, irresistible messenger; whocannot be diverted from executing his orders, by...

...thousands of millions of years that it has yet to exist, and an eternity beyond. For "one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth for ever." Were the world, indeed, to come to an end now, its creation might in some sense be termed " a failure,"...

...vanity. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. 6 The wind...

...vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities ; all is vanity. — One generation **• '?: l° th.e passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." In all is. to the end, these passages (a) it is worthy of observation, that the same Greek word is,...

...xxviii. 43, &c. Sometimes it means as long as the world stands. So in Kccles. i. 4. " One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." And this last is the longest temporal duration that such a term is ever used to signify. For the duration...