Notes: November 10, 2008 – Ecclesiastes 1

Vanity of Vanities

The theme and conclusion of the book: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity (Ecclesiastes 1:2; 12:8).

  • What profit is there in life’s pursuits? (Eccl 1:3. Cf. 2:11; 3:9; 5:9, 16; 7:11; 10:10). Indeed, what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul (Mark 8:36)? (vs 3)
  • Do all you can, get all you can. Life goes on. (vs 4)
  • Things around us keep changing (vs 5-8);
  • yet there’s nothing new (vs 9-11).
  • So I, the preacher-king of Israel, set out on a quest to understand life (vs 12-18).

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