Ecclesiastes: The Philippians of the Old Testament (Biblia.com)

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What is the purpose of life? The preacher in Ecclesiastes, just like many today, is in search of life’s meaning. But as they look through their limited worldview all they find is “vanity, vanity”. Pure emptiness! They are in search for something which will have eternal value. To find it, we need to look beyond ourselves. This is what the preacher discovers; that man is powerless, yet God has a...

to build.’6 As Gleason Archer put it, the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes writes ‘to convince men of the uselessness of any world view which does not rise above the horizon of man himself.’7 As a result of the biblical author’s careful examination of man’s environment, it ‘leaves us hungry to know God.’8 Christian Ginsburg, the eminent Hebrew scholar who produced one of the most detailed studies of Ecclesiastes, summarized the book in the following words: The design of this book … is to gather

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