[423]. Grätz’s Monatsschrift, 1873, pp. 168-174.
[424]. Hexapla (1713), i., Præliminaria, p. 42. Montfaucon indicates vii. 23a as manifestly made up of a genuine version, and one interpolated from Aquila. Comp. Clericus’ note on Eccles iv. 1.
[425]. Plumptre, Ecclesiastes, pp. 71-74; Wright, Koheleth, pp. 67-70. It is plainly impossible in the light of the history of dogma to place Wisdom before Ecclesiastes. Yet Hitzig has done this. Nachtigal took a sounder view in 1799 when he published a book on Wisdom regarded als Gegenstück des Koheleth. It forms vol. ii. of a singular work called Die Versammlung der Weisen, of which Koheleth forms vol. i.
[426]. See Schiffer, Das Buch Kohelet nach der Auffassung der Weisen, part i., pp. 100-102.
[427]. Midrasch Koheleth, § 1, 3; comp. Pesikta of R. Kahana, § 8 (Schiffer, pp. 6, 7).
[428]. By Delitzsch; see Wright’s Koheleth, p. 471, and comp. Strack, art. ‘Kanon des A. T.’ in Herzog-Plitt, vol. vii.
[429]. I quote the characteristic closing words, תחילתו דברי תורה וסופו דברי תורה (Shabbath, c. 30b).
[430]. Gesch. der jüdischen Poesie, p. 20.
[431]. Koheleth, p. 46.
[432]. See the passage from Sanhedrin (Jer. Talm.), x. 28a, quoted at length in Wright’s Koheleth, pp. 467-468.