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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
Preface
3
1
Koheleth, Its Occurrences and Testimony
5
2
The Question of Authorship
7
3
The Theme
9
4
The Question `What is that good?'
12
Is that life worth living, which is without Christ?
12
Does your business pay? (1:3)
16
Sore travail and its exercise (1:12-15)
18
The search for `that good' (1:12 to 2:26)
20
Life's true portion (2:4-11)
22
A time for every purpose -
both of God and man (3:1-17)
24
Adam; his relation to the theme (6:10)
26
5
The Good Name (7:1)
31
6
Koheleth's Key to the Riddle -
The Life to Come (7:11,12)
32
7
The Answer `What that good is'
34
Death, Mourning and Sorrow, their relation to what is
good for man in this life (7:1-6)
35
The maddening effect of `oppression' and
`crookedness', but for the knowledge of
God's purpose (7:7-17)
36
The practical problem of good and evil (7:14)
38
The policy of Laodicea (7:15-22)
40
The `reason' of evil discovered (7:24-29)
41
Wisdom (8:1-17)
43
Contentment (8:15 to 9:18)
44
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The Conclusion of the Matter
46
Appendix - The Testimony of the Vocabulary
47
The Structure of the book
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