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shortthoughts's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent commentary. This work is not quite equal to Kidner's classic commentary on Proverbs, but it is a solid Ecclesiastes commentary. Ecclesiastes is a difficult book but if you can get a hold of the main idea, it does take care of some of the difficulty.
notwithoutwitness's review against another edition
2.0
I found Kidner's introduction: "What is this Book doing in the Bible - a reconnaissance" helpful, but the rest of the commentary was so short, I did not find it as helpful.
"He [author of Ecclesiastes] is demolishing to build. The searching questions he has asked are those that life puts to us, if we will only listen. He can afford to ask them, because in the final chapters has has good news for us, once we can stop pretending that what is mortal is enough for us, who have been given a capacity for the eternal." (p. 19)
"We face the appalling inference that nothing has meaning, nothing matters under the sun. It is then that we can hear, as the good news which it is, that everything matters - for God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil." (p. 20)
"He [author of Ecclesiastes] is demolishing to build. The searching questions he has asked are those that life puts to us, if we will only listen. He can afford to ask them, because in the final chapters has has good news for us, once we can stop pretending that what is mortal is enough for us, who have been given a capacity for the eternal." (p. 19)
"We face the appalling inference that nothing has meaning, nothing matters under the sun. It is then that we can hear, as the good news which it is, that everything matters - for God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil." (p. 20)
camerongreypiner's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.25
mbeck's review against another edition
3.0
I wanted to like this more, due to Kidner's reputation and the help he has given me in other commentaries. But his style in this work was not exegetical, nor really expository. It was more like musings or thoughts on the verses in Ecclesiastes. Helpful at times, but it didn't really fit any specific needs that a student, teacher, or preacher would have.
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