Difference between revisions of "Ecclesiastes"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(→Commentaries) |
(→Commentaries) |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
*[https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/ecclesiastes/jerome-commentary-on-ecclesiastes St. Jerome's Commentary]. | *[https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/ecclesiastes/jerome-commentary-on-ecclesiastes St. Jerome's Commentary]. | ||
| + | |||
| + | *[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/473659 ECCLESIASTES AND the RUBAIYAT,"] REV. WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH, PH.D. | ||
==Thoughts== | ==Thoughts== | ||
| − | *The book isn't as problematic as I thought. It is modest, saying we can't know things for sure, so we should avoid overt sin and live happily and simply. | + | *The book isn't as problematic as I thought. It is modest, saying we can't know things for sure, so we should avoid overt sin and live happily and simply. It is the anti-Nietzsche book. |
| + | |||
| + | *Calvin on pleasure, Book III. Ecclesiastes. If we want to help the poor, that means we think riches are good-- otherwise, we wouldn't ant to make a poor man rich. See Augustine too. On Epicurus. https://findingaugustine.org/Record/71267 | ||
| + | |||
| + | *Christian Approval of Epicureanism Author(s): Richard P. Jungkuntz Source: Church History , Sep., 1962, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1962), pp. 279-293 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3163320 | ||
Latest revision as of 05:22, 27 August 2023
Commentaries
- An amazing list of old commentaries from Reformedbooksonline.com.
- ECCLESIASTES AND the RUBAIYAT," REV. WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH, PH.D.
Thoughts
- The book isn't as problematic as I thought. It is modest, saying we can't know things for sure, so we should avoid overt sin and live happily and simply. It is the anti-Nietzsche book.
- Calvin on pleasure, Book III. Ecclesiastes. If we want to help the poor, that means we think riches are good-- otherwise, we wouldn't ant to make a poor man rich. See Augustine too. On Epicurus. https://findingaugustine.org/Record/71267
- Christian Approval of Epicureanism Author(s): Richard P. Jungkuntz Source: Church History , Sep., 1962, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1962), pp. 279-293 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3163320
