the Third Week of Advent
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Dictionaries
Ecclesiastes
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
or The preacher, the name of a book of the Old Testament, usually ascribed to Solomon. Compare 1 Kings 3:12 and Ecclesiastes 1:16 1 Kings 10:21,27 and Ecclesiastes 2:4-9 1 Kings 11:3,4 and Exodus 7:25,25 . It appears to have been written by Solomon in his old age, when freed from the entanglements of idolatry, luxury, and lust, B. C. 977. It is a discourse upon the true wisdom; with many isolated precepts, illustrated from his own unexampled experience and from the most sagacious observation of the course of life; the whole demonstrating the vanity of all earthly good, and showing that there is a better life to come, and that the only true wisdom is to "fear God and keep his commandments." This, he says, is the conclusion of the whole matter, Ecclesiastes 12:13 . In reading this book, care should be taken not to deduce opinions from detached sentiments, but from the general scope and combined force of the whole.
These files are public domain and are a derivative of the topics are from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary published in 1859.
Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Ecclesiastes'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/e/ecclesiastes.html. 1859.
