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St. Jerome: Commentary on Ecclesiastes is unavailable, but you can change that!

This first English translation of St. Jerome’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes includes a discussion by the translators that elucidates the difficulties of Jerome’s text, but also presents an original view of Jerome’s hermeneutical approach to the theological issues raised by this challenging book of the Bible.

9:1 I gave all this in my heart to consider things as a whole: that the just and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. Affection, too; and hate, too: there is not a man knowing everything in the face of them. This is another passage more clearly translated by Symmachus, as: “I have set all these things in my heart to consider them as a whole, because* both the just and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. Further, man does not know about either friendships or
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