Ecclesiastes 1:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Bible Comments

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Under a great variety of evidences, taken from the circumstances of human life, and everything around, the Preacher fully proves the total inability of all the outward circumstances of nature to constitute happiness.

Ecclesiastes 1:1

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

The book opens very properly with the name, or rather the office and connection of the Author, and the purport of his sermon. Where the mane of Solomon is, there is sure to be found wisdom. How much more with that of Jesus, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge? Colossians 2:3.

Ecclesiastes 1:1

1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.