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Divine Science Bible Text Book

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Genesis - History of Israelites - Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy - Joshua - Judges - Ruth - Psalms - Proverbs - Song of Solomon - Prophets - New Testament History - Healing Works of Jesus - The 4 Evangelists - Lord's Prayer - Parables - Lord's [Last] Supper - Jesus after his Resurrection - Paul's Letters - Epistles - Revelation - Glossary - Numbers - Contents - Index

directed to the righteousness of Jehovah. which will manifest itself in the future.

ECCLESIASTES. . - p. 228

THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES

Represents a variety of earthly things, valuable in revealing the limitations of the Hebrew thinker who took neither immortality nor idealism into account. Koheleth, "one who holds the office of teacher." By this name, the author means Solomon; he is identified with the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Ecc]. 1:1. It is also clear that Solomon is the king whose varied experiences of wisdom and luxury are referred to in chapters 1 and 2.

The title Ecclesiastes comes from the Septuagint, a Greek version of the Old Testament.

Eccl. 1: 2-11

Ecc. 1: 12-15

Ecc. 2:13-14

There is no mention in the book, of Jehovah, God of the Jews. Vanity of Vanities, all is vanity. No profit comes to man for all his toil. Nature and man go ceaselessly round in the same course, and there is no new thing under the sun.

Koheleth, being king over Jerusalem, uses his wisdom to understand the life of men and finds that all is vanity.

"I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness --- yet I perceived that one event happeneth to the wise man and the fool." This "event" appears to be the time that man ceases his activity in this world, the wall of sense

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