Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 1:17
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Ecclesiastes1:17
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly : I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit .
That I might throughly understand the nature and difference of Truth and Errour, of Virtue and Vice, all things being best understood by contraries, and might discern if there were any opinion or practice amongst Men, which would give him full satisfaction.
Or, feeding upon wind, as v. 14.
Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] 2. 12. [illegible: 1 word]. 23. 25.
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