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Didymus the Blind, on Eccl 1:1
Didymus the Blind · c. A.D. 313–398
Eccl 1:1 · Douay-Rheims
“The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, king of Jerusalem.”
On this verse:
“Question: [Are the] words of Ecclesiastes said by the author personally?Answer: Actually the Spirit is the author of the divinely inspired Scriptures. The Spirit inspires so that words are expressed, but the wise man is also involved. For the Spirit has not himself invisibly written the letter and put down the text, but he breathes it into the soul. Either the real author is Solomon, or some [other] wise men have written it. Maybe we should opt for the latter so that nobody may say that the speaker talks about himself.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.