Vanity: Man is Like To

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Psalm 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
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Christ as Light; How He, and How his Disciples are the Light of ...
... patience with man, nor the like probation, nor the like hope, but another degree
of these, since [4591] "the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/24 christ as light how.htm

The Transfiguration
... which we see in our Lord, which is like what we ... how we all admire it; how it raises
a man in our ... we see in wise and good men any vanity, boasting, pompousness ...
/.../kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon iii the transfiguration.htm

Man's Misery by the Fall
... Like Damocles, banquet, who while he sat at meat with a ... All the troubles incident
to man's life are the ... of Adam has subjected the creature to vanity.' Romans 8 ...
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Of Man's Turning to God; and what Helps and what Lets his Turning.
... manners of wickedness, they love the vanity of this ... not set on womanly beauty nor
like lechery, wherefore ... things occupies the heart of any man, it altogether ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter i of mans turning.htm

Psalm CXLIV.
... 5. "Man is made like unto vanity: his days pass away like a shadow"
(ver.4). What vanity? Time, which passeth on, and floweth by. ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm cxliv.htm

The Vanity of Idols.
... Chapter II."The vanity of idols ... Is not a fourth silver, which needs a man to watch
it, lest ... are now vessels, formed of the same materials, become like to such ...
/.../the epistle of mathetes to diognetus/chapter ii the vanity of idols.htm

The Wicked Man's Life, Funeral, and Epitaph
... I saw a flickering kind of sorrow, like the dying of a wick that is almost ... now in
a few words I will endeavor to show that it is vanity for a man to come ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the wicked mans life funeral.htm

The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves Mutually Connected. --Nature ...
... For as there exists in man something like a world ... series of disgraceful properties
every man, being stung ... Thus, our feeling of ignorance, vanity, want, weakness ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 1 the knowledge of.htm

Blessed and Tragic Unconsciousness
... perfecting of individual character is this: Look at Him till you become like Him,
and ... Tell me the company a man keeps, and ... They followed after vanity, and have ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/blessed and tragic unconsciousness.htm

Happiness Deriving from Perfect Uniformity.
... all the pleasures of the world and found them bitter, voiced his disillusionment
thus: "But this also is vanity and vexation of ... The just man is like the sun ...
/.../de liguori/uniformity with gods will/3 happiness deriving from perfect.htm