Cohelet, or the Preacher

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Excerpt from Cohelet, or the Preacher: Translated From the Hebrew, With a Study on the Age and Character of the BookIsolomon. There are similar examples of these ficti ftious names in the books of wisdom. Prov., Oh., xxx. And xxxi. Q, H L T, son of David has been a powerful king, a great builder, and a man of plea sure, devoted to women, to wine and to wisdom, a. Parabolist savant, curious in regard to everything in nature, and these are precisely the characteristics in which narrative and legend represent Solo mon. NO one doubts that the author, who certainly was acquainted with the proverbs, also attributed to 'solomon, did not wish to put in the foreground the successor of David. This celebrated king appeared to him simply as a convenient personage for the object he had proposed to himself namely, to point out the vanity of everything. Solomon had attained the summit of glory and prosperity, and was in a better position than any other person to discover the absolute hollowness of all the Springs of human life and the complete frivolity of the opinions upon which society is based.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.