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  • From: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] qohelet 9:7
  • Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:55:16 -0300

the text in these chapters is pretty bumpy, with big leaps of thought, without
so much an effort to fill in the in-between (BEIN HASHITIN),
as if the author were in a hurry. here is my feeble effort to recover
the in-between of his message.

eat and drink

[i.e. be happy because you are alive, which is]

already

[a hugh priviledge. and since]

god

[gave you this priviledge, it is only because he must have]

approved of your deeds.

[so dont worry too much about deeds and their rewards].

under this interpretation, there is a fatalism here, and also godly
decision [to give and deny life]. but the fatalism is not absolute
because god somehow weighs people's deeds.


nir cohen




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