Ecclesiastes

The royal Preacher now proceeds to counsel the young to cultivate a genuine piety, in the prospect of old age. “Remember now thy Creator in the...

The central lesson of the first verse of this chapter is that we ought to act with hopeful but unselfish generosity, and with thoughtful but...

At the close of the preceding chapter, we observed wisdom and folly being contrasted with each other; and this contrast is still pursued...

At the close of the preceding chapter, the royal Preacher recorded his conviction that it is impossible for the wisdom of man to fathom the...

We have just seen how the royal Preacher speaks in praise of wisdom, and how much importance he attaches to the possession of it. He ranks it...

The Preacher opens this chapter by laying down some great truths which seem to be paradoxes to the unthinking part of mankind – which sadly, is...

In this chapter, the royal Preacher continues his theme. He had just finished speaking, at the end of chapter 5, of the wealthy man to whom God...

It is part of the teaching of this Book that the highest good possible to man, amidst the limitations and fluctuations of the present life, can...

In the opening words of this chapter, the Preacher makes another confession. He records how he had been plunged into the darkest views of life...

The litany of “times and seasons” which open this chapter seems to be intended to point back to the question which Solomon asks again in verse...

Solomon had discovered the evanescence of the fame which a person may attain from the accumulation of a string of letters behind his or her...

The Book of Ecclesiastes contains “the words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem” – obviously none other than King Solomon....