A great nothing

Thomas Brooks


"The next day Agrippa and Bernice arrived at the auditorium 
with great pomp." Acts 25:23. That is, with great phantasy 
or vain show. All the honor, pomp, and accolade of this world 
is but a phantasy. Worldly honor is but a great nothing—a 
glorious illusion, a shadow, a dream. 

Great swelling titles are but as so many rattles, or as 
so many feathers in men's caps. Worldly honor is but 
a wind, which will blow a man the sooner to hell. 

Adonibezek, a mighty prince, is quickly made to eat 
scraps from under the table with the dogs. Judges 1:7. 

Nebuchadnezzar, a mighty conqueror, turned a-grazing 
among the oxen. Daniel 4:28. 

Herod is reduced from a conceited god—to be the most 
loathsome of men, a living carrion attacked by worms,
the vilest of creatures. Acts 12:23. 

Great Haman feasted with the king one day, and 
made a feast for crows the next day. Esther 7:10.


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