Gold Nugget 167 - A Species of Insanity
The Preacher found the way of pleasure as little fitted to conduct to felicity as that of wisdom; discovered in fact, that laughter occasioned by indulgence in sensual delights was only a species of insanity, a kind of delirious intoxication which stupefied the reason and overthrew the judgment … So has every one who has sought his chief good in such enjoyment found. They who live and pleasure are dead while they live – dead to all the soul’s higher aspirations; are self-deceived; and will in the end have a rude awakening, when they find that their shout-lived pleasures have only been nourishing them for slaughter.
The Pulpit Commentary, Ecclesiastes p. 39, Ecclesiastes 2:1-11, (T. Whitelaw)
See also I Timothy 5:6, Titus 3:3, Hebrews 11:25, James 5:5
Gold Nugget 167
A Species of Insanity
