Ecclesiast

They were vexed by the brazen law of the Ecclesiast that men die like the beasts of the field and their end is the same.

Hence counsels Ecclesiast.

To him we may apply the text "Eleemosynas illius enarrabit omnis Ecclesia Sanctorum" (Ecclesiast. c. xxxi.).

Once again, the Ecclesiast utters his disillusion, his cruel disappointment, his sense of the utter vanity of existence in the soliloquy of the 'cello in the rhapsody "Schelomo."