Ecclesiastes

Commentaries

• An amazing list of old commentaries from Reformedbooksonline.com.

• St. Jerome's Commentary.

• 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