Ecclesiastes 1:12

I the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. Solomon having given a general proof of the vanity of all things here below, and of the insufficiency of them to make men happy, proceeds to…

Solomon relates his personal experience Eccl. 2; the result of which was “no profit,” and a conviction that all, even God’s gifts of earthly good to good men, in this life are subject to vanity. His…

Solomon, having asserted in general that all is vanity, and having given some general proofs of it, now takes the most effectual method to evince the truth of it, 1. By his own experience; he tried…

I the Preacher was king over Israel Better, " I … have been king." It would, perhaps, be too much to say that this mode of introducing himself, is so artificial as to exclude, as some have thought,…