[373]. L’Ecclésiaste, pp. 83, 84.
[374]. Dean Bradley, Lectures on Ecclesiastes (1885), p. 7.
[375]. See Der Prediger Salomo (1859). Hengstenberg misses, it is true, any direct reference to the Christian hope, but finds the idea of chastisement as a proof of divine love in iii. 18, vii. 2-4, an emphatic affirmation of eternal life in iii. 21, and the resignation of a faith like Job’s in iii. 11, vii. 24, viii. 17, xi. 5. Koheleth’s questionings are therefore according to him ‘eine heilige Philosophie.’
[376]. Preface to vol. iii. of S. Holdheim’s Predigten.
[377]. J. Derenbourg, Revue des études juives, No. 2, Oct. 1880.
[378]. Der Pessimismus, 1876, p. 8. Schopenhauer too calls the Jews the most optimistic race in history.
[379]. See Appendix.
[380]. Wisd. ii. 6; comp. Plumptre, Ecclesiastes, p. 71 &c., Wright, Koheleth, pp. 69, 70.
[381]. Letters to Various Persons, p. 25.
[382]. See the extracts in Trench’s Household Book of English Poetry, p. 405.