生活中有很多巧合。有些是显而易见因而众人都认可的巧合；而有些巧合则是需要特殊的体会才看得出来的巧合，因而不同的人基于不同的体会可能会对其巧合性有不同的判断。本文将要讲述的事属于后一种情况。因此，不同的读者对于本文所说的内容是否为巧合会有不同的判断。

两天前我在博客贴出了“美的科学基础和科学的美学悖论”一文，在该文的最后我说了这样一段话：

“本文的所有讨论仅涉及到今天的建立在物质概念上的自然科学与美学的一些内在的逻辑及其矛盾之处，并未涉及到柏拉图及各宗教所相信的超自然的美的议题。所以，文中关于科学的美学悖论的讨论似乎是在帮助以人的思维（而不是物质）为中心的存在主义哲学找到一个美学依据:)。。。

当然，之所以会这样是因为在整个讨论过程中并未涉及超自然的存在。而作为一个基督徒我本人相信超自然的美才是所有的美的真正基础，或者说我们所生活于其中的包括人在内的世界美只是超自然的美的某种反映而已，这将是另一篇文章讨论的议题。。。。。。”

昨天我去教会，牧师讲道所选的圣经章节是《传道书》第二章9-26节。读了这段圣经后一方面觉得是对我自己前一段时间读圣经时所带有的一些疑问的释疑（这是另话），另一方面又隐约感到是对我在前面提到的“美的科学基础和科学的美学悖论”一文的最后那段话的回应。

如牧师所说，这段经文对于基督徒来说都有可能会感到困惑，但是因为我隐约地感到这段经文多少是对我的那篇“美的科学基础和科学的美学悖论”的属世的特色的一个平衡，所以我现在就把该段经文列在下面，每个人对此可以有自己的解读。。。。。。

《传道书》2：9-26[1]：

9     这样，我就日见昌盛，胜过以前在耶路撒冷的众人。我的智慧仍然存留。

10   凡我眼所求的，我没有留下不给他的。我心所乐的，我没有禁止不享受的。因我的心为我一切所劳碌的快乐。这就是我从劳碌中所得的分。

11   后来我察看我手所经营的一切事，和我劳碌所成的功。谁知都是虚空，都是捕风，在日光之下毫无益处。

12   我转念观看智慧，狂妄，和愚昧。在王以后而来的人，还能作什么呢？也不过行早先所行的就是了。

13   我便看出智慧胜过愚昧，如同光明胜过黑暗。

14   智慧人的眼目光明，（光明原文作在他头上）愚昧人在黑暗里行。我却看明有一件事，这两等人都必遇见。

15   我就心里说，愚昧人所遇见的，我也必遇见。我为何更有智慧呢？我心里说，这也是虚空。

16   智慧人，和愚昧人一样，永远无人记念。因为日后都被忘记。可叹智慧人死亡，与愚昧人无异。

17   我所以恨恶生命，因为在日光之下所行的事我都以为烦恼。都是虚空，都是捕风。

18   我恨恶一切的劳碌，就是我在日光之下的劳碌。因为我得来的必留给我以后的人。

19   那人是智慧，是愚昧，谁能知道。他竟要管理我劳碌所得的，就是我在日光之下用智慧所得的。这也是虚空。

20   故此，我转想我在日光之下所劳碌的一切工作，心便绝望。

21   因为有人用智慧知识灵巧所劳碌得来的，却要留给未曾劳碌的人为分。这也是虚空，也是大患。

22   人在日光之下劳碌累心，在他一切的劳碌上得着什么呢？

23   因为他日日忧虑，他的劳苦成为愁烦。连夜间心也不安。这也是虚空。

24   人莫强如吃喝，且在劳碌中享福。我看这也是出于神的手。

25   论到吃用，享福，谁能胜过我呢？

26   神喜悦谁，就给谁智慧，知识，和喜乐。惟有罪人，神使他劳苦，叫他将所收聚的，所堆积的，归给神所喜悦的人。这也是虚空，也是捕风。

Ecclesiastes 2:9-26[2]:

⁹ I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

   ¹⁰ I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
   I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
   and this was the reward for all my toil.
¹¹ Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
   and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
   nothing was gained under the sun.

    ¹² Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
   and also madness and folly.
What more can the king’s successor do
   than what has already been done?
¹³ I saw that wisdom is better than folly,
   just as light is better than darkness.
¹⁴ The wise have eyes in their heads,
   while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
   that the same fate overtakes them both.

   ¹⁵ Then I said to myself,

   “The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
   What then do I gain by being wise?”
I said to myself,
   “This too is meaningless.”
¹⁶ For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;
   the days have already come when both have been forgotten.
Like the fool, the wise too must die!

    ¹⁷ So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. ¹⁸ I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. ²⁰ So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. ²¹ For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. ²² What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? ²³ All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.

   ²⁴ A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, ²⁵ for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? ²⁶ To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.