and work of Christ. I am not attempting to mount an argument here for a so-called Christological or Christocentric reading of Ecclesiastes. I have no real objection to these terms, other than they have sometimes come to represent an approach to Christian hermeneutics that can hold a book like Ecclesiastes at a safe distance rather than engage it. For the gospel to form our grid for understanding Ecclesiastes is not a call to “see Christ” in every verse, or even every passage of the book. This is