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Gill's Exposition
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher,.... The wise man, or preacher, set out in the beginning of the book with this doctrine, or proposition, which he undertook to prove; and now having proved it by…
This passage is properly regarded as the Epilogue of the whole book; a kind of apology for the obscurity of many of its sayings. The passage serves therefore to make the book more intelligible and…
Solomon is here drawing towards a close, and is loth to part till he has gained his point, and prevailed with his hearers, with his readers, to seek for that satisfaction in God only and in their duty…
Cambridge Bible
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity The recurrence at the close of the book, and after words which, taken as we have taken them, suggest a nobler view of life, of the same sad burden…
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