Chapter I: Front Matter

A COMMENTARY ON ECCLESIASTES

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A COMMENTARY
ON
ECCLESIASTES

RIVINGTONS

London _Waterloo Place_
Oxford _High Street_
Cambridge _Trinity Street_

A COMMENTARY
ON
ECCLESIASTES

BY THE REV.

THOMAS PELHAM DALE, M.A.

LATE FELLOW OF SIDNEY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
AND RECTOR OF ST. VEDAST WITH ST. MICHAEL LE QUERNE, LONDON.

דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים וְחִידֹתָם׃ יִרְאַת יְהוָה♦ רֵאשִׁית דָּעַת

♦ “יְחוָֹה” replaced with “יְהוָה”

RIVINGTONS
London, Oxford, and Cambridge
1873

TO

JOHN HALL GLADSTONE, ESQ. PH. D. F.R.S.

THROUGH WHOSE LIBERALITY IT SEES THE LIGHT,

IS THIS WORK AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY

The Author.