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ECCLESIASTES
605. ANNOTATIONS on
the Book of Ecclesiastes. [12mo.] Lond.
Printed by J. Streater.
1669.
By no means remarkable, except for extreme rarity.
606. BEZA (THEODORE.). Ecclesiastes. Solomon's Sermon to the People,
with an Exposition. Small 8vo. Camb.,
[1594]. 7/6.
Sure to be weighty and instructive. It is exceedingly rare.
607. BRIDGES (CHARLES,
M.A.) Exposition of Ecclesiastes. Sq. 8vo. 6/- Lond., Seeley & Co. 1860. S. 3/-
After the manner of other works by
this devout author, who is always worth consulting, though he gives us
nothing very new.
608. BROUGHTON (HUGH.
1549—1612). A Comment upon Ecclesiastes, framed for the Instruction
of Prince Henry. 4to. 1605.
Broughton was a far-famed
and rather pretentious Hebraist whom Dr.
Gill quoted as an authority. His work is nearly obsolete, but
its loss is not a severe one.
609. BUCHANAN (ROBERT, D.D.)
Ecclesiastes; its Meaning and its Lessons, explained and illustrated. Sq.
8vo. 7/6. Lond., Glasg., &
Edinb., Blackie & Sons. 1859. S. 3/6.
Dr. Buchanan has endeavored in every
instance to give the true meaning of the text. His explanations were
composed for the pulpit and delivered there. The work is most important,
but strikes us as lacking in liveliness of style.
610. CHOHELETH, or
"The Royal Preacher, a Poem." First published in the year 1768.
4to. 3/- Reprinted, 8vo., 1830. 1/6.
This is the work of which Mr. Wesley
wrote:—"Monday, Feb. 8, 1768. I met with a surprising poem,
intituled Choheleth, or the Preacher: it is a paraphrase in tolerable verse
on the Book of Ecclesiastes. I really think the author of it (a Turkey
merchant) understands both the difficult expressions and the connection of
the whole, better than any other, either ancient or modern, writer whom I
have seen." We defer to Mr.
Wesley's opinion, but it would not have occurred to us to
commend so warmly.
611. COLEMAN (JOHN NOBLE, M.A.) Ecclesiastes. A New Translation,
with Notes. Imp. 8vo. 5/- Lond.,
Nisbet. 1867. S. 2/6.
A scholarly translation with important observations.
612. COTTON (JOHN. 1585—1652). A briefe exposition, with
practical observations. Small 8vo. Lond.,
1654. [Reprinted in Nichol's series of Commentaries. See Muffet, No. 596.]
By a great linguist and sound divine. Ecclesiastes is not a book to be
expounded verse by verse; but Cotton
does it as well as anyone.
613. COX (SAMUEL). The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository
Lectures. Sq. 8vo. 7/6. Lond.,
Isbister. 1868. S. 3/6.
We should find it hard to subscribe to Mr.
Cox's views of Ecclesiastes, for, to begin with, we cannot
admit that its author was not Solomon, but some unnamed Rabbi:
nevertheless, "The Quest of the Chief Good" is full of valuable
matter, and abundantly repays perusal.
Not the same work, but a later commentary based on this work by the same
author:
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614. DALE (THOMAS
PELHAM, M.A.) Ecclesiastes. With a running Commentary and Paraphrase. 8vo.
7/6. Lond., Rivingtons.
1873.
This author makes all that he can out of the errors of the Septuagint,
which he seems to value almost as much as the correct text itself. The new
translation is a sort of stilted paraphrase, which in a remarkable manner
darkens the meaning of the wise man's words. Mr. Dale says he is a man of one book, and we are glad
to hear it: for we should be sorry for another book to suffer at his hands.
615. DESVOEUX (A. V.)
A Philosophical and Critical Essay on Ecclesiastes. 4to. Lond., 1760. 2/6.
A curious and elaborate production. Neither in criticism, nor in theology,
is the author always sound, and his notes are a very ill-arranged mass of
singular learning.
616. GINSBURG (CHRISTIAN D.) Coheleth, or Ecclesiastes;
translated, with a Commentary. 8vo. Lond.,
Longmans.
1857. S. 12/-
The author does not believe that Solomon wrote the book, and his view of
its design is not the usual, nor, as we think, the right one. His outline
of the literature of the book is very complete.
617. GRANGER (THOMAS). A Familiar Exposition, wherein the World's
Vanity and the true Felicitie are plainly deciphered. 4to. Lond., 1621. 5/- to 7/6.
Very antique, containing many obsolete and coarse phrases; but pithy and
quaint.
618. GREENAWAY
(STEPHEN). New Translation. 8vo. Leicester, 1781. 3/6.
Confused, eccentric, and happily very rare.
619.
HAMILTON JAMES, D.D. (1814-1867). Royal Preacher: Lectures on
Ecclesiastes. Cr. 8vo. 3/6.
Also 12mo., 1851; 16mo., 1854. Lond.,
Nisbet. S. 1/6 to 2/6.
We have had a great treat in reading
this prose poem. It is a charming production.
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620. HENGSTENBERG (E. W., D.D.)
Commentary on Ecclesiastes. To which are appended: Treatises on the Song of
Solomon; on the Book of Job; on the Prophet Isaiah, &c. 8vo. 9/- Edinb., T. & T. Clark. 1860. S.
4/6.
Scholarly of course, and also more
vivacious than is usual with Hengstenberg.
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621. HODGSON (BERNARD,
LL.D ) New Translation. 4to. Oxf., 1791. 4/-
Notes neither long, numerous, nor valuable.
622. HOLDEN (GEORGE, M.A.) An Attempt to illustrate the Book of
Ecclesiastes. 8vo. Lond.,
1822. 3/6.
Bridges says that Holden "stands foremost for
accuracy of critical exegesis," and Ginsburg
considers his Commentary to be the best in our language. We may therefore
be wrong in setting so little store by it as we do, but we are not
convinced.
623. JERMIN (MICHAEL, D.D.) Ecclesiastes. Folio. 1639. 6/6.
The school to which Jermin
belonged delighted to display their learning, of which they had no small
share; they excelled in wise sayings, but not in unction. The fruit is
ripe, but lacks flavour.
624. KEIL & DELITZSCH. (See Books of Solomon. No. 577.)
625. LANGE. (See Books of Solomon. No. 578.)
Refer to links under number 42
626. LLOYD (J., M.A.) An Analysis of Ecclesiastes: with reference
to the Hebrew Grammar of Gesenius, and with Notes; to which is added the
Book of Ecclesiastes, in Hebrew and English, in parallel columns. 4to. 7/6. Lond., Bagsters. 1874.
This will be esteemed by men who have some knowledge of the Hebrew. The
repeated references to Gesenius would render the book tedious to the
ordinary reader, but they make it all the more valuable to one who aspires
to be a Hebraist.
627. [LUTHER]. An Exposition of Salomon's Booke, called
Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher. 8vo. Printed by J. Day. Lond., 1513.
Even the British
Museum authorities
have been unable to find this octavo for us, though it is mentioned in
their catalogue.
628. MACDONALD (JAMES M., D.D.
Princeton, N. J.)
Ecclesiastes. Thick 12mo. New York. 1856. S. 4/6.
Thoroughly exegetical, with excellent
"scopes of argument" following each division: to be purchased if
it can be met with.
629. MORGAN (A. A.) Ecclesiastes metrically Paraphrased, with
Illustrations. 4to. 21/- Lond.,
Bosworth. 1856.
This is an article de luxe,
and is rather for the drawing-room than for the study. A graphic pencil,
first-class typography, and a carefully written metrical translation make
up an elegant work of art.
630. MYLNE (G. W.) Ecclesiastes; or, Lessons for the Christian's
Daily Walk. 16mo. Lond.,
1859. 1/6.
The author in this little publication does not comment upon the whole Book;
but the passages he touches are ably explained.
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631. NISBET (ALEXANDER. Died
about 1658). An Exposition, with Practical Observations. 4to. Edinb., 1694. 4/6 to 10/6.
One of those solid works which learned Scotch divines of the seven teenth
century have left us in considerable numbers. In our judgment it is as
heavy as it is weighty.
632. NOYES. (See No.
579).
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633. PEMBLE (WILLIAM, M.A 1591—1623). Salomon's Recantation
and Repentance; or, the Book of Ecclesiastes briefly and fully explained.
Thin 4to. Lond., 1628.
3/6.
Anthony á Wood calls Pemble "a famous preacher, a
skillful linguist, a good orator, and an ornament to society."
Moreover, he was a learned Calvinistic divine. This "Recantation"
is a minor production. The style is scholastic, with arrangements of the
subjects such as render it hard to read. We confess we are disappointed
with it.
634. PRESTON
(THEODORE, M.A.) A translation of the Commentary of Mendelssohn from the
Rabbinic Hebrew; also a newly-arranged English Version, 8vo. Lond., 1845. 5/-
A book more prized by linguists than by preachers. We might with propriety
have named this Mendelssohn’s
Commentary, for so it is.
635. PROBY (W. H. B.,
M.A.) Ecclesiastes for English Readers. Thin 8vo. 4/6. Lond., Rivingtons. 1874. S. 2/3.
About 45 pages, and these are quite enough. What has come to a man’s
brain when he prophecies that Antichrist will take away the daily
sacrifice, that is, “forbid the ucharistic bread and wine,” and
then adds: “To this awful time there is probably a mystical reference
in the words of our present book (XII. 6), ‘While the silver cord is
not loosed, or the golden bowl broken, or the pitcher broken at the
fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.’ For silver and gold signify respectively, in the
symbolic language of Scripture, love
and truth: thus the
loosening of the silver cord will mean the love of many waxing cold, and
the breaking of the golden bowl will mean the failure of truth from the
earth; and we understand, then, that in the last awful time there will be
no longer any speaking of the truth in love. And as the ‘wells of
salvation’ in Isaiah XlI. 3, are the sacraments and other means of
grace, so the breaking of the pitcher and the wheel may signify the
cessation of those ministries by which the sacraments and other means of
grace are dispensed.”
636. REYNOLDS (EDWARD, D.D. Bishop
of Norwich,
1599—1676) Annotations. Works.
Vol. IV. 8vo. Lond.,
1826. Reprinted, by Dr. Washburn. 8vo. Lond.,
1811. 2/6.
See Westminster Assembly’s Annotations (No. 2), for which Reynolds wrote this: he is always
good.
637. SERRANUS, or, DE
SERRES (JOHN. 1540—1598). A Godlie and Learned Commentary upon
Ecclesiastes, newly turned into English, by John Stockwood, Schoolmaster of
Tunbridge. 8vo. Lond.,
1585. 7/6.
Serranus was a Protestant
pastor at Nismes, of such moderate opinions, and such objectionable modes
of stating them, that he was about equally abhorred by Romanists and
Protestants. He is said to have been very inaccurate in his learning.
638. STUART (MOSES). A
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 12mo. 6/- New York.,
1851. S. 3/-
Full and minute, with most
instructive introductions. It is unnecessary to say that Moses Stuart is a
great authority, though not all we could wish as to spirituality.
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639. TYLER (THOMAS,
M.A.) Ecclesiastes; a Contribution to its Interpretation. 8vo. 7/6. Lond., Williams & Norgate. 1875.
This writer is no doubt a profound thinker, but we do not set much store by
the result of his thinkings. He maintains that the writer of Ecclesiastes
was a Jew who had traveled abroad, and heard the Stoic philosophers and
their opponents at Athens.
He seems to think that his point is proved, but it is the merest surmise
possible. The work is not at all to our taste.
640. WARDLAW (RALPH, D.D.)
Lectures on Ecclesiastes. 2vols., 8vo. 1821. 2vols., 12mo. 1838. Oliphant
& Co.’s edition, in 1 vol., 8/6.
1871. S. 4/6.
Wardlaw is always goad, though not
very brilliant. He may be relied upon, when not critical, and he generally excites thought.
641. WEISS (BENJAMIN). New Translation and Exposition, with
Critical Notes. 12mo. 4/- Lond.,
Nisbet & Co. 1856. S. 1/6.
It is pleasing to find a converted Jew engaged upon this Book. Mr. Weiss says many good things,
but frequently his interpretations and remarks are more singular than wise.
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642. YCARD (FR. Dean of Achonry). Paraphrase. 8vo. Lond., 1701. 1/6.
The dean supposes the Royal Preacher to have been interrupted by an
impudent sensualist, and so he gets rid of the difficulty of certain passages
by putting them into the scoffer's mouth. The theory is not to be tolerated
for a moment.
643. YOUNG (LOYAL, D.D.)
Commentary, with introductory Notices by McGill and Jacobus. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1865.
This American comment is highly
spoken of by eminent judges and appears to have been carefully executed. It
is able and solid, and at the same time enlivened with originality of
thought, vivacity of expression, and practical pungency.
644. SMITH (JOHN, M.D., M.R.C.P.L.) King Solomon's Portraiture of
Old Age, wherein is contained A Sacred Anatomy both of Soul and Body, with
an account of all these Mystical and Enigmatical Symptomes, expressed in
the six former verses of the 12th Chap. of Ecclesiastes, made plain and
easie to a mean Capacitie. 8vo. Lond.,
1666. 2/6 to 5/-
A curious book by a Physician, who brings his anatomical knowledge to bear
upon the twelfth chapter of Ecclesiastes, and tries to show that Solomon
understood the circulation of the blood, &c. Matthew Poole introduced the
substance of this treatise into his Synopsis,
and in that huge compilation he speaks eulogistically of the author, with
whom he resided. We mention it because of its singularity.
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