ECCLESIASTES 9:17 TO ECCLESIASTES 10:15. EXPERIENCE CRYSTALLISED IN PROVERBS. Ecclesiastes 9:17 to Ecclesiastes 10:3 forms a series of proverbs perhaps due to the sage who worked over the original book. In Ecclesiastes 9:17 follow _mg.;_ the contrast is between the quiet but sure voice of the wise... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS ON GOVERNMENT. These verses are in the strain of Ecclesiastes 10:4. Ecclesiastes 10:16. whose king is a child: _e.g._ like Ptolemy Epiphanes, who became king of Egypt (205 B.C.) at the age of five. Such a one is often in the hands of unworthy regents. The word may be also translated serv... [ Continue Reading ]