[393]. History of Hebrew Nation and its Literature (ed. 2), p. 344.
[394]. He also published Der Prediger Salomon; ein Lesebuch für den jungen Weltbürger; übersetzt und erklärt (1792). The very title bears the mark of the century.
[395]. Opera, ii. (1699), 765 (Comm. in Ecclesiasten). Comp. the use made of Koheleth’s phraseology by the author of Wisdom (ii. 6-10).
[396]. See Sanhedrin, x. 1:—אלו שאין להם חלק לעולם הבא האומר אין תחית המתים מן התורה ואין תורה מן שמים ואפיקורום.—Comp. Aboth, ii. 14 (10 Taylor), and Genesis Rabbah, 19 (‘the serpent was Epicuros’).
[397]. Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte, p. 46.
[398]. See his Ecclesiastes, a Contribution to its Interpretation, &c. (1874). The main results of this work were accepted by Prof. Siegfried, who reviewed it in the Zeitschrift f. wissenschaftl. Theologie, 1875, pp. 284-291.
[399]. This discrepancy I had noted down before observing that Dean Plumptre had quoted the very same passage of Lucretius as a parallel to Eccles. ii. 24. For my own view of Koheleth’s recommendations, see p. [253]. Lucretius seems to me, in this strain, to soar higher than Koheleth; Omar Khayyâm to fall below him.
[400]. Ecclesiastes, p. 47.
[401]. Philo alludes, e.g., to the Stoic doctrine of revolutions (which some have found in Koheleth) and remarks that the Stoics think of God as of a boy who builds up sandhills, and then throws them down again.
[402]. Hilgenfeld, Jüdische Apokalyptik, p. 51, &c.