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12I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 1:12

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-18)

Solomon, having asserted in general that all is vanity , and having given some general proofs of it, now takes the most effectual method to evince the truth of it, 1. By his own experience; he tried them all, and found them vanity. 2. By an induction of particulars; and here he begins with that which bids fairest of all to be the happiness of a reasonable creature, and that is knowledge and learni…

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