A New Version of the Book of Job; With Expository Notes, and an Intr. by F.W.C. Umbreit, Tr. by J.H. Gray - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION. I. On the Genius and Form of the Book. The vain and perishable nature of earthlythings led the Preacher Solomon to consider this question, so important to the interests of man, "What is, under the sun, the chief and most enduring good?" His anxious, but fruitless search for an answer caused a mental struggle, in which daring reason viewing the strongest outlines of naked truth, opposed the sharp disparities of. life to the faith which commands implicit confidence in God. But at length he acquiesced, with submission, in the unalterable decrees of Omnipotent Wisdom. In the Book of Job, we find that a still more important question suggested itself to the mind of the Sage: "How comes experience to teach us, that the pious are often tried by suffering, while the wicked revel in the fulness of prosperity?" Hence arose A with increased violence a mental struggle between faith, which asserted the Divine justice--and reason, aided by a fertile fancy, which hesitated not to reproach the Almighty with the evils incident to mortality. At length the conflict was ended by a free confession of his limited capacity, and an endeavour to obtain the repose with which faith rewards a confiding soul. Excited by conscious freedom, this son of earth, a philosophic Titan, boasts that he will scale the height where the Godhead is enthroned in sacred obscurity, and tear from thence the veil which conceals him from mortal gaze. But he is repelled by Omnipotent love, which, instead of crushing him with the mighty thunderbolt, raises in mercy its high and holy voice, which teaches the unfathomable depth of Divine wisdom, and the modest humility befitting a creature so ignorant as man. The consideration of the Mosaic doctrine, to which the origin of the Book of Job may b...

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