Excerpt from Ecclesiastes: A New Translation With Notes Explanatory, Illustrative, and CriticalChristianity receives as Divine the canon of the Old Testament transmitted by the Jews, the only nation of all the peoples of the earth chosen of 'old by God to be the depository of His revealed will, and acknowledges both this canon of the Old Testament and the New Testament Scriptures to be God's Word written, to which Word man must not add, and from which Word man must not subtract. The Jews divide the Old Testament into three parts, the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa. Christ Himself recognised this threefold division of the Old Testament, and declared that all three parts were prophetical of Him (luke xxiv. Being pro phetical of Christ, all three parts must have emanated from the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. The book called ecclesiastes is embodied in the Hagiographa, and therefore constitutes an integral portion of Divine revelation, - of all Scripture given by inspiration of God, profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruo tion in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.