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1 | Did Solomon repent? | Ecclesiastes | roverjbh99 | 7943 | ||
In the book, did Solomon repent of his sins or am I reading too much into the text? | ||||||
2 | Did Solomon repent? | Ecclesiastes | Hank | 8004 | ||
Did Solomon repent of his sins in the book of Ecclesiastes? Good question, and the answer may be, yes he did or, no he didn't, but I tend to think he did. Here's why: The mood of the book is generally one of sadness. In good part autobiographical, it is the philosophical world-view of one of the wisest of men who finds himself, as it were, facing a mid-life crisis. Solomon had had it all -- wealth, fame, power. He had done it all -- enjoyed the pleasures of food and drink, of women and song, and even the forbidden venture of chasing after foreign gods. Still and all, he came to a crossroad in his life and looked back upon the path he had trodden only to conclude that it had been all vanity, meaningless, empty. His life had led him only to frustration and despair. Everything "under the sun" was no more satisfying than "chasing after the wind" -- an expression he uses nine times in his book. The first eleven chapters are filled with these negative "vanity of vanities" observations.....But in the twelfth and final chapter of this sad book, Solomon begins to set a new, more uplifting, tone. He says, "Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come....The Preacher sought to find delightful words and to write words of truth correctly....The conclusion, when all has been heard, is fear God and keep his commandments......For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil." .......Now, whether Solomon took his own advice is the question of the centuries. Solomon ends his book by pointing his people to the commandments of God. I am comfortable with the thought that he may well have pointed himself in the same direction. --Hank | ||||||