[443]. Blau, Zeitschr. der deutsch. morgenl. Ges., xxv. 540.

[444]. Wetzstein in Delitzsch’s Iob, p. 528.

[445]. On this, see Wright, Ecclesiastes &c. p. 127.

[446]. Strack, Lehrbuch der neuhebr. Sprache, p. 54.

[447]. Hoheslied und Koheleth, pp. 212-3.

[448]. Grammatica arabica, § 284 (i. 167). Comp. Wright, Arabic Grammar, i. 157 (§ 233).

[449]. The mistake was caused by the rarity of קהלת with the article.

[450]. Comp. British Quarterly Review, Oct. 1871.

[451]. Aboth, iii, 1 (ed. Strack); comp, Schiffer, Das Buch Kohelet nach der Auffassung der Weisen, part i., p. 49.

[452]. Kohelet, p. 29. Certainly this is not the view of Talmudic Judaism, at least not in the sense described by Dr. Grätz. See Weber, Altsynagogale Theologie, p. 323.