Ecclesiastes 2:9-11 Experiment Complete and All was Vanity
9 Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem The experiment comes to an end and all three parts of the exercise are restated; Vanity of Wisdom, Knowledge, Madness, and Folly, Vanity of Physical Stimulation, and Vanity of Increasing Wealth. An argument can be made that these things do […]
Ecclesiastes 2 4-8 Experiment Part 3 Vanity of Increasing Wealth
4a I enlarged my works: Having explored actions of the mind and then actions of pleasure and stimulation, the collector of sentences advances to part 3 of the experiment, growing his property. גָּדַל gaw-dal’ – grow, advance, became greater, enlarge מַעֲשֶׂה mah-as-eh’ = work, property, business, possession 4b I built houses for myself, I […]