Cohelet Or The Preacher

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Excerpt from Cohelet, or the Preacher: Translated From the Hebrew; With a Study on the Age and Character of the Book Koltelet would thus be a sort of symbolic name for Solomon, and regarded as a kind of preacher to, and teacher of, assembled multitudes. No doubt, 'there is very little that is natural in all this. It smacks too much of the methods of that old exe 'getical school which, from the most undecipherable, even most corrupt, texts, was obliged to extract some meaning. There is no book that has less of the tone of a moral preacher about it than the one now in question; the feminine form, whatever people say, is a strong objection. All the explana tions which have been attempted of the word Q0 HE LE T cannot explain away impossibilities. It is, therefore, excusable in one to seek from other sources solutions more conformable with the true spirit of philology, even at the risk of not succeeding entirely in satisfying oneself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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