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Ecclesiastes (Qohelet — "Assembler/Preacher") is Solomon's philosophical autopsy of life lived under the sun — without transcendent reference. The repeated verdict hebel ("vapor/vanity") is not nihilism but diagnostic: every finite meaning-system eventually collapses under the weight of death.
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- Primary Witness Text: The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, ...
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Ecclesiastes (Qohelet — "Assembler/Preacher") is Solomon's philosophical autopsy of life lived under the sun — without transcendent reference. The repeated verdict hebel ("vapor/vanity") is not nihilism but diagnostic: every finite meaning-system eventually collapses under the weight of death.
The book's apologetics use is considerable: Ecclesiastes performs the reductio ad absurdum of secular humanism. Pleasure (2:1-3), wisdom (2:12-16), work (2:17-23), and accumulation (5:10-17) are each tried and found bankrupt. The resolution: "Fear God and keep His commandments" (12:13) — transcendent meaning alone survives.
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Ecclesiastes 1:1
Hebrew
דִּבְרֵי קֹהֶלֶת בֶּן־דָּוִד מֶלֶךְ בִּירוּשָׁלָֽ͏ִם׃diverey-qohelet-ven-david-melekhe-viyrvshalaim
KJV: The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
AKJV: The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
ASV: The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
YLT: Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Hebrew
הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים אָמַר קֹהֶלֶת הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים הַכֹּל הָֽבֶל׃havel-havaliym-'amar-qohelet-havel-havaliym-hakhol-havel
KJV: Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
AKJV: Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
ASV: Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
YLT: Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:2Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
Verse 2 Vanity of vanities - As the words are an exclamation, it would be better to translate, O vanity of vanities! Emptiness of emptinesses. True, substantial good is not to be found in any thing liable to change and corruption. The author referred to in the introduction begins his paraphrase thus: - "O vain deluding world! whose largest gifts Thine emptiness betray, like painted clouds, Or watery bubbles: as the vapor flies, Dispersed by lightest blast, so fleet thy joys, And leave no trace behind. This serious truth The royal preacher loud proclaims, convinced By sad experience; with a sigh repeats The mournful theme, that nothing here below Can solid comfort yield: 'tis all a scene. Of vanity, beyond the power of words To express, or thought conceive. Let every man Survey himself, then ask, what fruit remains Of all his fond pursuits? What has he gain'd, By toiling thus for more than nature's wants Require? Why thus with endlness projects rack'd His heated brain, and to the laboring mind, Repose denied? Why such expense of time, That steals away so fast, and ne'er looks back?Could man his wish obtain, how short the space For his enjoyment! No less transient here The time of his duration, than the things Thus anxiously pursued. For, as the mind, In search of bliss, fix'd on no solid point, For ever fluctuates; so our little frames, In which we glory, haste to their decline, Nor permanence can find. The human race Drop like autumnal leaves, by spring revived: One generation from the stage of life Withdraws, another comes, and thus makes room For that which follows. Mightiest realms decay, Sink by degrees; and lo! new form'd estates Rise from their ruins. Even the earth itself, Sole object of our hopes and fears, Shall have its period, though to man unknown."
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
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Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:3
Hebrew
מַה־יִּתְרוֹן לָֽאָדָם בְּכָל־עֲמָלוֹ שֶֽׁיַּעֲמֹל תַּחַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃mah-yitervon-la'adam-vekhal-'amalvo-sheya'amol-tachat-hashamesh
KJV: What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
AKJV: What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?
ASV: What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?
YLT: What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:3Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:3
Verse 3 What profit hath a man - What is the sum of the real good he has gained by all his toils in life? They, in themselves, have neither made him contented nor happy.
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Ecclesiastes 1:3
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Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
Hebrew
דּוֹר הֹלֵךְ וְדוֹר בָּא וְהָאָרֶץ לְעוֹלָם עֹמָֽדֶת׃dvor-holekhe-vedvor-va'-veha'aretz-le'volam-'omadet
KJV: One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
AKJV: One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth stays for ever.
ASV: One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.
YLT: A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.
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Ecclesiastes 1:4
Verse 4 One generation passeth away - Men succeed each other in unceasing generations: but the earth is still the same; it undergoes no change that leads to melioration, or greater perfection. And it will continue the same לעולם leolam, during the whole course of time; till the end of all things arrives.
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Ecclesiastes 1:4
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Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:5
Hebrew
וְזָרַח הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ וּבָא הַשָּׁמֶשׁ וְאֶל־מְקוֹמוֹ שׁוֹאֵף זוֹרֵחַֽ הוּא שָֽׁם׃vezarach-hashemesh-vva'-hashamesh-ve'el-meqvomvo-shvo'ef-zvorecha-hv'-sham
KJV: The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
AKJV: The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to his place where he arose.
ASV: The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
YLT: Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.
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Ecclesiastes 1:5
Verse 5 , Ecc 1:6 These verses are confused by being falsely divided. The first clause of the sixth should be joined to the fifth verse. "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he ariseth; going to the south, and circulating to the north."
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Ecclesiastes 1:5
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Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:6
Hebrew
הוֹלֵךְ אֶל־דָּרוֹם וְסוֹבֵב אֶל־צָפוֹן סוֹבֵב ׀ סֹבֵב הוֹלֵךְ הָרוּחַ וְעַל־סְבִיבֹתָיו שָׁב הָרֽוּחַ׃hvolekhe-'el-darvom-vesvovev-'el-tzafvon-svovev- -sovev-hvolekhe-harvcha-ve'al-seviyvotayv-shav-harvcha
KJV: The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
AKJV: The wind goes toward the south, and turns about to the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits.
ASV: The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it turneth about continually in its course, and the wind returneth again to its circuits.
YLT: Going unto the south, and turning round unto the north, turning round, turning round, the wind is going, and by its circuits the wind hath returned.
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:6Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:6
Verse 6 "The wind is continually whirling about, and the wind returneth upon its whirlings." It is plain, from the clause which I have restored to the fifth verse, that the author refers to the approximations of the sun to the northern and southern tropics, viz., of Cancer and Capricorn. All the versions agree in applying the first clause of the sixth verse to the sun, and not to the wind. Our version alone has mistaken the meaning. My old MS. Bible is quite correct: The sunne riisith up, and goth doun, and to his place turnith agein; and there agein riising, goth about bi the south, and then agein to the north. The author points out two things here: 1. Day and night, marked by the appearance of the sun above the horizon; proceeding apparently from east to west; where he sinks under the horizon, and appears to be lost during the night. 2. His annual course through the twelve signs of the zodiac, when, from the equinoctial, he proceeds southward to the tropic of Capricorn; and thence turneth about towards the north, till he reaches the tropic of Cancer; and so on.
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Ecclesiastes 1:6
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Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:7
Hebrew
כָּל־הַנְּחָלִים הֹלְכִים אֶל־הַיָּם וְהַיָּם אֵינֶנּוּ מָלֵא אֶל־מְקוֹם שֶׁהַנְּחָלִים הֹֽלְכִים שָׁם הֵם שָׁבִים לָלָֽכֶת׃khal-hanechaliym-holekhiym-'el-hayam-vehayam-'eynenv-male'-'el-meqvom-shehanechaliym-holekhiym-sham-hem-shaviym-lalakhet
KJV: All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
AKJV: All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, thither they return again.
ASV: All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.
YLT: All the streams are going unto the sea, and the sea is not full; unto a place whither the streams are going, thither they are turning back to go.
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:7Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:7
Verse 7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full - The reason is, nothing goes into it either by the; rivers or by rain, that does not come from it: and to the place whence the rivers come, whether from the sea originally by evaporation, or immediately by rain, thither they return again; for the water exhaled from the sea by evaporation is collected in the clouds, and in rain, etc., falls upon the tops of the mountains; and, filtered through their fissures, produce streams, several of which uniting, make rivers, which flow into the sea. The water is again evaporated by the sun; the vapors collected are precipitated; and, being filtered through the earth, become streams, etc., as before.
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Ecclesiastes 1:7
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Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:8
Hebrew
כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים יְגֵעִים לֹא־יוּכַל אִישׁ לְדַבֵּר לֹא־תִשְׂבַּע עַיִן לִרְאוֹת וְלֹא־תִמָּלֵא אֹזֶן מִשְּׁמֹֽעַ׃khal-hadevariym-yege'iym-lo'-yvkhal-'iysh-ledaver-lo'-tisheva'-'ayin-lire'vot-velo'-timale'-'ozen-mishemo'a
KJV: All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
AKJV: All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
ASV: All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
YLT: All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.
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Ecclesiastes 1:8
Verse 8 All things are full of labor - It is; impossible to calculate how much anxiety, pain, labor, and fatigue are necessary in order to carry on the common operations of life. But an endless desire of gain, and an endless curiosity to unfitness a variety of results, cause men to, labor on. The eye sees much, but wishes to, see more. The ear hears of many things; but is curious to have the actual knowledge of them. So desire and curiosity carry men, under the Divine providence, through all the labors and pains of life.
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Ecclesiastes 1:8
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Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Hebrew
מַה־שֶּֽׁהָיָה הוּא שֶׁיִּהְיֶה וּמַה־שֶׁנַּֽעֲשָׂה הוּא שֶׁיֵּעָשֶׂה וְאֵין כָּל־חָדָשׁ תַּחַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃mah-shehayah-hv'-sheyiheyeh-vmah-shena'ashah-hv'-sheye'asheh-ve'eyn-khal-chadash-tachat-hashamesh
KJV: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
AKJV: The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
ASV: That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
YLT: What is that which hath been? it is that which is, and what is that which hath been done? it is that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9
Verse 9 The thing that hath been - Every thing in the whole economy of nature has its revolutions; summer and winter, heat and cold, rain and drought, seedtime and autumn, with the whole system of corruption and generation, alternately succeed each other, so that whatever has been shall be again. There is really, physically, and philosophically, nothing absolutely new under the sun, in the course of sublunary things. The same is the case in all the revolutions of the heavens.
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Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:10
Hebrew
יֵשׁ דָּבָר שֶׁיֹּאמַר רְאֵה־זֶה חָדָשׁ הוּא כְּבָר הָיָה לְעֹֽלָמִים אֲשֶׁר הָיָה מִלְּפָנֵֽנוּ׃yesh-davar-sheyo'mar-re'eh-zeh-chadash-hv'-khevar-hayah-le'olamiym-'asher-hayah-milefanenv
KJV: Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
AKJV: Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time, which was before us.
ASV: Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
YLT: There is a thing of which one saith: `See this, it is new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!
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Ecclesiastes 1:10
Verse 10 Is there any thing, etc. - The original is beautiful. "Is there any thing which will say, See this! it is new?" Men may say this of their discoveries, etc.; but universal nature says, It is not new. It has been, and it will be.
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Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:11
Hebrew
אֵין זִכְרוֹן לָרִאשֹׁנִים וְגַם לָאַחֲרֹנִים שֶׁיִּהְיוּ לֹֽא־יִהְיֶה לָהֶם זִכָּרוֹן עִם שֶׁיִּהְיוּ לָאַחֲרֹנָֽה׃'eyn-zikhervon-lari'shoniym-vegam-la'acharoniym-sheyiheyv-lo'-yiheyeh-lahem-zikharvon-'im-sheyiheyv-la'acharonah
KJV: There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
AKJV: There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. ¶
ASV: There is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.
YLT: There is not a remembrance of former generations ; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:11Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:11
Verse 11 There is no remembrance - I believe the general meaning to be this: Multitudes of ancient transactions have been lost, because they were not recorded; and of many that have been recorded, the records are lost. And this will be the case with many others which are yet to occur. How many persons, not much acquainted with books, have supposed that certain things were their own discoveries, which have been written or printed even long before they were born! Dutens, in his Origin of the Discoveries attributed to the Moderns, has made a very clear case.
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Ecclesiastes 1:11
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- Dutens
- Moderns
Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:12
Hebrew
אֲנִי קֹהֶלֶת הָיִיתִי מֶלֶךְ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵל בִּירוּשָׁלָֽ͏ִם׃'aniy-qohelet-hayiytiy-melekhe-'al-yishera'el-viyrvshalaim
KJV: I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
AKJV: I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
ASV: I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
YLT: I, a preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:12Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:12
Verse 12 I the Preacher was king - This is a strange verse, and does not admit of an easy solution. It is literally, "I, Choheleth, have been king over Israel, in Jerusalem." This book, as we have already seen, has been conjectured by some to have been written about the time that Ptolemy Philadelphus formed his great library at Alexandria, about two hundred and eighty-five years before our Lard; and from the multitude of Jews that dwelt there, and resorted to that city for the sake of commerce, it was said there was an Israel in Alexandria. See the introduction. It has also been conjectured from this, that if the book were written by Solomon, it was intended to be a posthumous publication. "I that was king, still continue to preach and instruct you." Those who suppose the book to have been written after Solomon's fall, think that he speaks thus through humility. "I was once worthy of the name of king: but I fell into all evil; and, though recovered, I am no longer worthy of the name." I am afraid this is not solid.
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Ecclesiastes 1:12
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- Choheleth
- Israel
- Jerusalem
- Alexandria
- Lard
- Solomon
Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:13
Hebrew
וְנָתַתִּי אֶת־לִבִּי לִדְרוֹשׁ וְלָתוּר בַּֽחָכְמָה עַל כָּל־אֲשֶׁר נַעֲשָׂה תַּחַת הַשָּׁמָיִם הוּא ׀ עִנְיַן רָע נָתַן אֱלֹהִים לִבְנֵי הָאָדָם לַעֲנוֹת בּֽוֹ׃venatatiy-'et-liviy-lidervosh-velatvr-vachakhemah-'al-khal-'asher-na'ashah-tachat-hashamayim-hv'- -'ineyan-ra'-natan-'elohiym-liveney-ha'adam-la'anvot-vvo
KJV: And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
AKJV: And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail has God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
ASV: And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
YLT: And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It is a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:13Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:13
Verse 13 And I gave my heart to seek and search - While Solomon was faithful to his God he diligently cultivated his mind. His giving himself to the study of natural history, philosophy, poetry, etc., are sufficient proofs of it. He had not intuitive knowledge from God; but he had a capacity to obtain every kind of knowledge useful to man. This sore travail - This is the way in which knowledge is to be acquired; and in order to investigate the operations of nature, the most laborious discussions and perplexing experiments must be instituted, and conducted to their proper results. It is God's determination that knowledge shall be acquired in no other way.
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Ecclesiastes 1:13
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- Philo
Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
Hebrew
רָאִיתִי אֶת־כָּל־הַֽמַּעֲשִׂים שֶֽׁנַּעֲשׂוּ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ וְהִנֵּה הַכֹּל הֶבֶל וּרְעוּת רֽוּחַ׃ra'iytiy-'et-khal-hama'ashiym-shena'ashv-tachat-hashamesh-vehineh-hakhol-hevel-vre'vt-rvcha
KJV: I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
AKJV: I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
ASV: I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
YLT: I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:14Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
Verse 14 Behold, all is vanity - After all these discussions and experiments, when even the results have been the most successful, I have found only rational satisfaction; but not that supreme good by which alone the soul can be made happy. O curas hominum! O quantum est in rebus inane! "How anxious are our cares, and yet how vain The bent of our desires!" Pers. Sat. i., 5: 1.
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Behold
- Pers
- Sat
Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:15
Hebrew
מְעֻוָּת לֹא־יוּכַל לִתְקֹן וְחֶסְרוֹן לֹא־יוּכַל לְהִמָּנֽוֹת׃me'uvat-lo'-yvkhal-liteqon-vecheservon-lo'-yvkhal-lehimanvot
KJV: That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
AKJV: That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
ASV: That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
YLT: A crooked thing one is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:15Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:15
Verse 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight - There are many apparent irregularities and anomalies in nature for which we cannot account; and there are many defects that cannot be supplied. This is the impression from a general view of nature; but the more we study and investigate its operations, the more we shall be convinced that all is a consecutive and well-ordered whole; and that in the chain of nature not one link is broken, deficient, or lost.
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Ecclesiastes 1:15
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Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:16
Hebrew
דִּבַּרְתִּי אֲנִי עִם־לִבִּי לֵאמֹר אֲנִי הִנֵּה הִגְדַּלְתִּי וְהוֹסַפְתִּי חָכְמָה עַל כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־הָיָה לְפָנַי עַל־יְרוּשָׁלָ͏ִם וְלִבִּי רָאָה הַרְבֵּה חָכְמָה וָדָֽעַת׃divaretiy-'aniy-'im-liviy-le'mor-'aniy-hineh-higedaletiy-vehvosafetiy-chakhemah-'al-khal-'asher-hayah-lefanay-'al-yervshalaim-veliviy-ra'ah-hareveh-chakhemah-vada'at
KJV: I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
AKJV: I communed with my own heart, saying, See, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yes, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
ASV: I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
YLT: I--I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:16Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:16
Verse 16 I communed with mine own heart - Literally, "I spoke, I, with my heart, saying." When successful in my researches, but not happy in my soul, though easy in my circumstances, I entered into my own heart, and there inquired the cause of my discontent. He found that, though - 1. He had gotten wisdom beyond all men; 2. Wealth and honors more than any other; 3. Practical wisdom more than all his predecessors; 4. Had tried pleasure and animal gratification, even to their extremes; yet after all this he had nothing but vexation of spirit. None of these four things, nor the whole of them conjoined, could afford him such a happiness as satisfies the soul. Why was all this? Because the soul was made for God, and in the possession of him alone can it find happiness.
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Ecclesiastes 1:16
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Literally
Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
Hebrew
וָאֶתְּנָה לִבִּי לָדַעַת חָכְמָה וְדַעַת הוֹלֵלוֹת וְשִׂכְלוּת יָדַעְתִּי שֶׁגַּם־זֶה הוּא רַעְיוֹן רֽוּחַ׃va'etenah-liviy-lada'at-chakhemah-veda'at-hvolelvot-veshikhelvt-yada'etiy-shegam-zeh-hv'-ra'eyvon-rvcha
KJV: And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
AKJV: And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
ASV: And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.
YLT: And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is vexation of spirit;
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:17Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
Verse 17 To know madness and folly - הוללות ושכלות holloth vesichluth. Παραβολας και επιστημην, "Parables and science." - Septuagint. So the Syriac; nearly so the Arabic. "What were error and foolishness." - Coverdale. Perhaps gayety and sobriety may be the better meaning for these two difficult words. I can scarcely think they are taken in that bad sense in which our translation exhibits them. "I tried pleasure in all its forms; and sobriety and self-abnegation to their utmost extent." Choheleth paraphrases, "Even fools and madmen taught me rules."
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Septuagint
- Syriac
- Arabic
- Coverdale
Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
Hebrew
כִּי בְּרֹב חָכְמָה רָב־כָּעַס וְיוֹסִיף דַּעַת יוֹסִיף מַכְאֽוֹב׃khiy-verov-chakhemah-rav-kha'as-veyvosiyf-da'at-yvosiyf-makhe'vov
KJV: For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
AKJV: For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.
ASV: For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
YLT: for, in abundance of wisdom is abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'
Commentary WitnessEcclesiastes 1:18Quoted commentary witness
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Ecclesiastes 1:18
Verse 18 For in much wisdom is much grief - The more we know of ourselves the less satisfied shall we be with our own hearts; and the more we know of mankind the less willing shall we be to trust them, and the less shall we admire them. Be that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow - And why so? Because, independently of God, the principal objects of knowledge are natural and moral evils. The Targum gives a curious paraphrase here: "The man who multiplies wisdom, when he sins and is not converted to repentance, multiplies the indignation of God against himself; and the man who adds science, and yet dies in his childhood, adds grief of heart to his relatives." A man in science; a foolish child in conduct. How pained must they be who had the expense of his education! But there are many men-children of this sort in every age and country.
Provenance. Rendered as a quoted commentary witness with explicit reference extraction from the source prose.
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Ecclesiastes 1:18
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Targum
- Because
Exposition: Ecclesiastes 1:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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- Ecclesiastes 1:1
- Ecclesiastes 1:2
- Ecclesiastes 1:3
- Ecclesiastes 1:4
- Ecclesiastes 1:5
- Ecclesiastes 1:6
- Ecclesiastes 1:7
- Ecclesiastes 1:8
- Ecclesiastes 1:9
- Ecclesiastes 1:10
- Ecclesiastes 1:11
- Ecclesiastes 1:12
- Ecclesiastes 1:13
- Ecclesiastes 1:14
- Ecclesiastes 1:15
- Ecclesiastes 1:16
- Ecclesiastes 1:17
- Ecclesiastes 1:18
Named authorities or texts surfaced in commentary
- Preacher
- David
- Jerusalem
- Ray
- True
- For
- Withdraws
- They
- Capricorn
- Cancer
- Ovid
- Philo
- Dutens
- Moderns
- Choheleth
- Israel
- Alexandria
- Lard
- Solomon
- Behold
- Pers
- Sat
- Literally
- Septuagint
- Syriac
- Arabic
- Coverdale
- Targum
- Because
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Obadiah
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Jonah
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Micah
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Nahum
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Habakkuk
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Zephaniah
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Haggai
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Zechariah
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Malachi
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Matthew
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Mark
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Luke
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John
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Acts
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Romans
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1 Corinthians
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2 Corinthians
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Galatians
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Ephesians
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Philippians
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Colossians
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1 Thessalonians
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2 Thessalonians
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1 Timothy
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2 Timothy
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Titus
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Philemon
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Hebrews
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James
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1 Peter
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2 Peter
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1 John
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2 John
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3 John
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Jude
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Revelation
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Ecclesiastes 1:1
Provenance. Rendered as an editorial synthesis tied to the canonical verse context and current chapter source.
Canonical locus
Ecclesiastes 1:1
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness