Bible Dictionary: Man: Walks in a Vain Show

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
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Psalm 39
... As nothing: sure each man at best. is wholly vanity. ^6Sure each man walks in a
vain show; they vex themselves in vain: He heaps up wealth, and doth not know. ...
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But we Need no Longer Show in this Narrow Way the Drawback of this ...
... It is a mind such as this that "walks in darkness ... unchecked, unbounded luxury, lust
of power, vain-glory, the ... of this accursed chain, suppose a man who because ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter iv but we need.htm

Psalm XXXIX.
... in Our Image, after Our Likeness." [1051] "Albeit man walks in the ... Like a shrewd
man as you are, you leave ... looking back on a certain "vain" show, and looking ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xxxix.htm

The Bitterness and Blessedness of the Brevity of Life
... 'Every man walketh in a vain show.' The original ... a shadow, or, as we should say,
he walks as a ... the whole outward life and activity of every man is represented ...
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Ahab and Elijah
... The man who walks in the 'vain show' of transgression, whose heart is set upon
evil,"he fancies that ashes are bread, and stones gold (as in the old fairy ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/ahab and elijah.htm

Answer to Objections: Man's Freewill and God's Foreknowledge
... deny that it is himself that wills, eats, walks, gives assent ... From this man who,
after having devoted himself to the ... If I do not pray in vain for what concerns ...
/.../origen/origen on prayer/chapter iv answer to objections .htm

Its Evidence
... The Apostle shows their hope was a vain one, and that ... its fruits, that a righteous
person is one who walks in the ... He declares that the man who is not a doer of ...
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Sovereignty and Salvation
... or like Samson with Delilah: we shake our vain limbs with ... be saved?" "Yes," says
God; "I will show you Jews ... There is no stumbling when a man walks with his eyes ...
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The Lame Man Cured by Peter and John.
... the most perfect art should have laboured in vain to subdue. ... He stands, he leaps,
he walks, he follows his benefactors ... or holiness, we had made this man to walk ...
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Implanted Dispositions.
... only a mirror reflecting the divine nature is the vain effort of ... qualities in every
sphere: in the material world, for man eats, drinks, walks, and sleeps ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/ix implanted dispositions.htm