The Book of Ecclesiastics (1)

The book with its great lessons belongs to the Solomonic time as is abundantly proved by the internal evidence and by the extreme difficulty which the op­ponents of Solomonic authorship find in placing it in any other period and the endless disputes and contra­dictions in which they mutually involve themselves by the effort. Of all the books of the Bible none has suffered so many misapprehensions as this book. It has been accused of numerous contradictions, of absence of plan and connection....