Boża odpłata według Koheleta

Abstract

The writers of the Old Testament expressed in a lot of places an idea of the recompense of God for good and bad deeds of a man. In principle the recompense should have to have a worldly character. The comprehensive conception of the recompense expressed in the texts of the Old Testament does not present itself however as homogeneous. Testimonies of a development of this conception and of changes in understanding of it are some statements of Koheleth. According to this Israelite sage God recompenses for deeds of a man, but that does not happen automatically. God, who has power over every man, decides himself, if he recompenses, or how and when. A man yet should act well not for fear of the recompense of God, but because of the fact, that he is created in God’s image and according to God’s likeness.