Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf

RELATION OF QOHELETH TO GREEK THOUGHT 33
If genuine, it is used in a straightforward way to refer to a second youth
who became king.
t]D3 3HN, 5', was regarded by Zirkel as = t\dpyvpos,
but as McNeile has said one could as well take neon anx (Pr. 29*) aa a
Graecism=0iX6,
and does
11 ch. 8 which , Zirkel takes
for the Gr. or rb
$\ov, which in Plato is used in the sense of "the Universal." Such a
view imports into the phrase a meaning foreign to the context. The
word simply means "all," and means that either the whole book, or all
that the editor wished to say, has been heard. These points are more
fully discussed by McNeile, op. cit., pp. 30-43.