Commentary on Ecclesiastes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Stuart, Moses

9781332114757: Commentary on Ecclesiastes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Commentary on Ecclesiastes

This rule I have endeavored to comply with, in the fol lowing little work now presented to the public. With what success, must be referred to competent judges. I can only say, that in honestly endeavoring to follow it, I have found no serious occasion for stumbling or offence at the book. Here, as in every work of this nature, the animus auctorz's must be sought after, and if possible dis covered. That is, or should be, our guide. If the writer did not design to give us a mere preceptive and ethical treatise, but to pkilosoplzize on the vanity of human life, and to consider the many objections against a wise and holy Providence, which arise from the miseries of men, and the unequal distribution of prosperity and adversity among them - if such was his design, how can it be strange that he has brought to view many of these objec tions, in order that the reader may see them, and see the manner in which they are answered? The objections should, in such a case, be taken for what they are, viz., for objections or doubts that naturally arise in a mind on which gospel light has not shined; and the answers to them are to be thoroughly investigated. Paul has pur sued a similar course in some of his epistles; and this.

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Excerpt from Commentary on Ecclesiastes

The book of Ecclesiastes presents many apparent problems, which have long been the subject of wonder and dispute, among the Jewish Rabbies as well as in the Christian church. Had not the evidence been strong and decisive of its rightful place in the Canon of the Hebrew sacred writings, it would undoubtedly have been rejected long ago by many, as not being a book of divine authority. Not a few passages seem to speak, at first view, the language of skepticism, i. e. of unbelief or doubt as to a future state, and also of devotedness to sensual enjoyment. It was on this ground, that some of the Jewish Rabbies, at the time when the Talmud was written, made an effort, as it would seem, to eject it from the sacred Canon, as we are told in the Talmud, Tract. Shabb. fol. 30, col. 2. Some of the Christian Fathers have intimated the like feelings, as existing among some Christians in their times; and since the revival of criticism in its late, and specially in its most recent form, the book has been treated as indeed a clever performance of the kind, but after all as the work of a skeptical Epicurean. Even De Wette, with his sober aspect and seeming impartiality, does not hesitate to bestow such an epithet on the author of the book. No wonder that he has had many imitators or followers in Germany.

The evidence that Ecclesiastes was a portion of the sacred Canon sanctioned by Christ and his apostles, is plain, and as certain as anything so remotely historical can be made out to be. This is shown in its proper place, in the Introduction to the Commentary. This admitted, it follows, that a serious obligation devolves on us to read the book, and at least to do what we can to understand it. Thousands of sermons have been preached on portions of the book, and a multitude of Commentaries have been written, most of which are merely ethical and hortatory. There is indeed no want of material in the book, for a basis to such sermons and homiletic commentary.

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