The Author of Ecclesiastes

It has always been a safe and established rule to determine the author of a certain book of Holy Writ, if at all possible, from the book itself. What surer guide could we have than the Word of God, which is its own indubitable testimony of its infallibility? Applying this rule to the book of Ecclesiastes it hardly seems possible that any one should as much as question the fact that Solomon is its author. The first chapter expresses this very definitely. Its opening statement reads: "The words...