Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Eclesiastes 7:27

בת Daughter. It is here figuratively used for people.²It is strange that I. E. here explains the expression daughter, after having many times passed it over in silence (1:8; 10:32; 16:1; 22:4 ; 23:10, etc.); even the very same phrase בתולת בת (23:12; 37:22), did not elicit any remark or explanation. The object of his remark here, is probably not only to explain the figurative use of the word בת daughter קהלת═ congregation or people, but also the meaning of the construct state of the two nouns בתולת בת the virgin of the daughter of, while other authorities render them the virgin daughter of, explaining בתולת, in spite of the form of the construct state, to be in apposition to בת. I. E. refers the virgin to the capital and the daughter to the whole country. Comp. his remark on Lam. 1:15. The Chaldæan translation renders these two words by מלכו כנשתא the kingdom of the people.

כי זה משה האיש, “for Moses, this man, etc.;” from the manner in which they referred to Moses with the pronoun “this,” although “HE” was not present, we can form an idea of the urgency haste and confused thinking that dominated the people’s mind at that time. We find the word זה used in inappropriate situations on numerous occasions, such as in Kohelet, 7,27, where the author refers to something intangible when he says: ראה זה מצאתי, “see this is what I found, etc.”

רואים את הקולות, “were seeing a visual image of the thunder.” The plain meaning of the verse is that even phenomena normally not subject to being seen, had become visible during the revelation. [In our time: “sound waves had become visible to the naked eye.” Ed.] Kohelet 7,27 already used the verb ראה “to see,” when he said: “see this is what I have found;” he referred to something that no one else before him had been able to find, (with his eyes). Or, compare Exodus 32,1 וירא העם כי בושש משה, “the people saw that Moses was tarrying.”