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ECCLESIASTES A2 Classic Bible Study Guide 1 ECCLESIASTES ECCLESIASTES A2 Classic Bible Study Guide 2 INTRODUCTION The Book of ECCLESIASTES gives every evidence of being a carefully composed literary essay that must be grasped as a totality before it can be understood in part. The content of the book is defined by nearly identical verses (1:2; 12:8), which circumscribe the book by anticipating and by summarizing the conclusions of the author. The theme is set forth in 1:3: "What profit has a man from all his labor in which he toils under the sun [that is, in this life]?" Or, can true wisdom be found by a human being apart from revelation from God? The Preacher's quest is for some sort of fixed, unchanging value ("profit") that can be found in this life ("under the sun") that can serve as a basis for proper living.

Ecclesiastes A2 Classic Bible Study Guide 3 Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 Solomon had dived into nature's depths (1 Kings 4:33), and he had it, more of it perhaps than ever any man had. He spoke in God's name, and was divinely inspired to say it, deliberately, and laid it down as a fundamental principle, on which he grounded the necessity of being religious.

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