ECCLESIASTES, a canonical book of the Old Testament, the design of which is to shew the vanity of all sublunary things.
It was composed by Solomon; who enumerates the
Ecclesiastical, several objects on which men place their happiness, Ecclesiastical, and then shows the insufficiency of all worldly enjoy-
ments.
The Talmudists made King Hezekiah to be the author of it: Grotius ascribes it to Zorobabel, and others to Isaiah; but the generality of commentators believe this book to be the produce of Solomon's repentance, after having experienced all the follies and pleasures of life.