Ecclesiastes #catechesis/bible/ecclesiastes
Old Testament · Wisdom Books · part of Old Testament → Bible
Chapters
- Ecclesiastes 1 — The vanity of all temporal things.
- Ecclesiastes 2 — The vanity of pleasures, riches, and worldly labours.
- Ecclesiastes 3 — All human things are liable to perpetual changes. We are to rest on God’s providence, and cast away fruitless cares.
- Ecclesiastes 4 — Other instances of human miseries.
- Ecclesiastes 5 — Caution in words. Vows are to be paid. Riches are often pernicious: the moderate use of them is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 6 — The misery of the covetous man.
- Ecclesiastes 7 — Prescriptions against worldly vanities: mortification, patience, and seeking wisdom.
- Ecclesiastes 8 — True wisdom is to observe God’s commandments. The ways of God are unsearchable.
- Ecclesiastes 9 — Man knows not certainty that he is in God’s grace. After death no more work or merit.
- Ecclesiastes 10 — Observations on wisdom and folly, ambition and detraction.
- Ecclesiastes 11 — Exhortation to works of mercy, while we have time, to diligence in good, and to the remembrance of death and judgment.
- Ecclesiastes 12 — The Creator is to be remembered in the days of our youth: all worldly things are vain: we should fear God and keep his commandments.
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New Advent na2 — Septuagint/Greek · Douay-Rheims · Clementine Vulgate.
