“It is Solomon who speaks these words. This Solomon was the third king of Israel, after King Saul and David, the chosen of the Lord. He succeeded his father on the throne and was proclaimed king when the power of the Israelites had already reached its height; he did not go on wearing his people out with war and fightin…”
Gregory of Nyssa, 4th c.
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17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
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15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
16I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
— Ecclesiastes 1:17 —
18For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.