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Perfect Through Suffering; Being Thoughts on the Book of Job Taken from Addresses Given at S. Paul's, Knightsbridge. with a Prefatory Memoir by W.C.E. Newbolt. Being Thoughts on the Book of Job Taken from Addresses Given at S. Paul's, Knightsbridge

Perfect Through Suffering; Being Thoughts on the Book of Job Taken from Addresses Given at S. Paul's, Knightsbridge. with a Prefatory Memoir by W.C.E. Newbolt. Being Thoughts on the Book of Job Taken from Addresses Given at S. Paul's, Knightsbridge


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF JOB. The Book of Job must always be full of interest to every lover of the sublime, to every thinker on the great and everlasting problems of human life. It has always been one of the favourite books of men of letters. Froude calls it a poem? unequalled of its kind, and one which will perhaps one day, when allowed to stand upon its merits, be seen towering up alone far above all the poems of the world . Tennyson loved it, and spoke of it as The greatest poem, whether of ancient or modern literature. Luther said it was more magnificent and sublime than any of the books in the sacred Scriptures . To every human being its value is inestimable, because it takes up and deals with, in the boldest way known in literature, the eternal problem of the ways of God with man, the inexorable problems of life's painful riddles. Are not such questionsxxx INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF JOB as these always arising in our hearts? Why do the righteous suffer? What is the meaning of disease of disaster ? Why should such an one die at the very moment when his life seemed most valuable ? To these questions the book seems to furnish an answer, at all events in part. It is a strange book?its authorship, its date, its origin are all a mystery. The author was plainly a Hebrew, but the book is hostile to Judaism; he has broken free from a certain narrowness which marked the Jew, and enters on a fierce contest with the orthodoxy of his day. The doctrine that righteousness brings prosperity, while wickedness entails sickness and misfortune, is often taught in the Old Testament, but the author of the Book of Job, while maintaining the truth that sin does bring suffering, repudiates the argument that in every case of suffering, antecedent sin must be a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217246835
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217246834
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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