Excerpt from The Meditations and Maxims of Koheleth: A Practical Exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes
The following pages contains the substance of a series of lectures delivered in 1883-4 to my own congregation. They are an attempt to expound, in the light of modern scholarship and criticism, and yet in a popular and practical manner, one of the most difficult books of the Bible. I cannot lay claim to any personal scholarship enabling me to make an independent study of the book. Mine is the humbler task of endeavouring to popularize the scholarship of others, to acquaint the ordinary reader of Ecclesiastes with the results which have been arrived at by some recent critics and interpreters, and at the same time to bring home to the heart and conscience the practical teaching of the book, as confirmed, modified, and supplemented by the later and fuller teaching of the Christian revelation.
The Commentaries to which I have been chiefly indebted are those of Ginsburg, Zockler, Delitzsch, Dean Plumptre, and Dr. C. H. H. Wright. Where such scholars agree in their interpretation of the original, I have felt myself on safe ground.
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