men figured out how to forget their troubles by seeking a pleasant buzz between their ears. Sometimes the buzz came from grapes, sometimes from grain, and, in other instances, from various kinds of vegetation. For various reasons it is hard for American Christians to sympathize with this. The first reason is that they do not really understand the problem as Ecclesiastes presents it. When a thinking man looks around at this world as it is, he should see that everybody must get stoned. When it is all over, he also sees that it didn’t do any good, but, as Solomon shows us, it was an
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