Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ecclesiastes 1:11
The reason why some things are thought "new," which are not really so, is the imperfect record that exists of preceding ages among their successors.
those that . . . come after—that is, those that live still later than the "things, rather the persons or generations, Ecclesiastes 1:4, with which this verse is connected, the six intermediate verses being merely illustrations of Ecclesiastes 1:4 [WEISS], that are to come" (Ecclesiastes 2:16; Ecclesiastes 9:5).
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