ECCLESIASTES
i.4: Claims that the earth will never be destroyed. (see note to Deut.iv.40)
ii.26: This verse was probably added later on to soften the overly pessimistic and cynical tone.
iii.20: No heaven, hell, or resurrection.
iv.3: Living is a curse.
xii.9-14: This epilogue, written in the third person, was perhaps the result of two hands trying to soften the tone of the book.
SONG OF SOLOMON
ii.12: The voice of the turtle is a reference to a migratory dove that reaches Jerusalem in the Spring.
iv.5: Imagine hearing the vicar at the pulpit reading from the Good Book how Your two breasts are like two fawns ....
v.4: In a book full of erotic prose, can anything be more exciting to read than this line: My lover put his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him?
vii.1-2: or also the joints of your thighs are like jewels ....?
vii.7-9: "Or go on further to how You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine ....
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