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| I. The Introduction | 1-66 |
| § 1. On the Authorship, Form, Design, and Contents of the Book | 3-32 |
| § 2. On the History of the Captivity | 32-66 |
| (1) The Babylonian Period | 38-43 |
| (2) The Persian Period | 43-66 |
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| II. The Translation | 67-110 |
| § 1. The Prologue | 69-70 |
| § 2. The First Section: or, The Quest of the Chief Good in Wisdom and in Pleasure | 71-76 |
| § 3. The Second Section: or, The Quest in Devotion to the Affairs of Business | 77-86 |
| § 4. The Third Section: or, The Quest in Wealth and in the Golden Mean | 87-96 |
| § 5. The Fourth Section: or, The Quest Achieved | 97-108 |
| § 6. The Epilogue | 109, 110 |
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| III. The Exposition | 111-335 |
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| § 1. The Prologue | 113-126 |
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| § 2. The First Section: or, The Quest in Wisdom and in Pleasure | 127-141 |
| (a) The Quest in Wisdom | 127-133 |
| (b) The Quest in Pleasure | 133-137 |
| (c) Wisdom and Pleasure Compared | 138-140 |
| (d) The Conclusion | 140, 141 |
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| § 3. The Second Section: or, The Quest in Devotion to the Affairs of Business | 142-186 |
| (a) The Quest obstructed by Divine Ordinances | 143-145 |
| (b) And by Human Injustice and Perversity | 145-151 |
| (c) It is rendered hopeless by the base Origin of Human Industries | 151, 152 |
| (d) Yet these are capable of a nobler Motive and Mode | 153-158 |
| (e) So also a happier and more effective Method of Worship is open to Man; | 158-160 |
| (f) And a more helpful and consolatory Trust in the Divine Providence | 161-164 |
| (g) The Conclusion | 164, 165 |
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| Application | 165-186 |
| (a) Devotion to Business springs from Jealous Competition: | 168, 169 |
| (b) It tends to form a Covetous Temper; | 169-171 |
| (c) To produce a Materialistic Scepticism; | 171-173 |
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| (d) To make Worship Formal and Insincere; | 173, 174 |
| (e) And to take from Life its Quiet and Innocent Enjoyments | 175-179 |
| (f) The Correctives of this Devotion are, |
| (1) A Sense of its Perils; | 179, 180 |
| (2) And the Conviction that it is opposed to the Will of God as expressed— |
| (a) In the Ordinances of his Providence, | 180 |
| (b) In the Wrongs which He permits Men to inflict upon us; | 181 |
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