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Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf

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QOHELETH'S EXPERIMENTS [Cn. l'2-2" 93<br />

In substance the question on this view becomes "What can<br />

the king's successor do? That which he (the king) already is doing."<br />

Del., Wr., and Ha. render: "What shall the man do who comes after<br />

the king whom they long ago made?" believing on the basis of i Ch.<br />

29" that Israelites could believe that Solomon had been made king by<br />

the people. This rendering seems harsh and unnatural. Sieg. transposes<br />

the two halves of the vs., so as to connect the question: "What<br />

can the man do," etc., with the statement of vs. n that all is vanity.<br />

02] is omitted by (8, & H , &, and H, and should probably be dropped<br />

from the text. and Biresh. Rob. are the only ancient authori-<br />

ties which support MT. Dr. notes that for wtoy, 68 MSS.,

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