# A commentary on Ecclesiastes

Author: Dale, Thomas Pelham, 1821-1892

Genre: Category: Religion/Spirituality

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72761

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+commentary+on+Ecclesiastes+Dale&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

which look like evil ones, and on this Koheleth develops the thought that man does not know a good thing when he sees it. He shows that even wisdom itself will not necessarily produce happiness in this world, though this, he is sure, is a good thing; but he is very bitter and sarcastic on those who, because right does not always succeed, resort to impiety; this, he shows, is a great and fatal mistake. Though the proposition that piety is happiness is not formally stated or worked out argumentatively, nevertheless this is proved so completely that Koheleth is able at the end of the whole to cite this as the real result of his argument.

## Chapters

- [Volume II. CHRISTIANITY. 8vo. 15s.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/23/index.md)
- [chapter i. 17), and =to pleasure= (or mirth), =What doth that do?= (as](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/9/index.md)
- [chapter ii. 2, which we have seen is the madness of false expectation)](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/17/index.md)
- [chapter vii. 1) =of the apothecary. Precious more than wisdom more than](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter VII. opens with a paradoxical statement of seven good things,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/22/index.md)
- [ii. 9 is too evidently foisted in from the margin to make it of much](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/2/index.md)
- [xvi. 13; it has been proposed to read כלעמת, in which case the meaning](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part III., containing the Fifth and Sixth and portions of the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/14/index.md)
- [chapter ix. 12, Isaiah xxix. 7, Ezekiel xix. 9, and with shurek at Job](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/16/index.md)
- [chapter vii. 7, Isaiah xliv. 25; and the participle at chapter ii. 2,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/6/index.md)
- [viii. 5, whence it appears that the precise meaning is moral obliquity)](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/5/index.md)
- [chapter ii. 3, and iii. 1, and is of larger import than under the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Book I. 6s. Book II. 5s.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/7/index.md)
- [i. 10, 11, 12 only, and always with this meaning: all the ancient](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part II., containing the Third and Fourth Books of Euclid,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-commentary-on-ecclesiastes-72761/chapters/26/index.md)