his work! Nor was the work of the author of Ecclesiastes the result of mere personal experience and experimentalism alone, for the “sayings of the wise,” in which category he placed his own work in 12:9, were “given by one Shepherd” (12:11)—a claim that he was divinely aided in writing his book. It hardly seems possible to equate this reference to “one Shepherd” with anyone other than the Lord Himself, who is Yahweh, the one true Shepherd of Israel. That title for our Lord is found in almost every