The Trial Of Job Classic Reprint

Author : Samuel Cox
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ISBN 13 : 9781331612384
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on the Book of Job written by Samuel Cox and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Commentary on the Book of Job: With a Translation The poets themselves acknowledge Job to be the greatest, or at least one of the greatest, poems ever written; and even the dullest reader can hardly be unaware of a certain magnificence both in its theme and style, or fail to cull from it many weighty sentences, many noble and picturesque illustrations. But, with all their admiration of it, even our poets, as one of the greatest of them has confessed, have often failed to catch the argument of the poem, its growing disclosure of spiritual truth; while many of its less gifted readers have not so much as suspected that any argument was being wrought out in the discussion between Job and his three Friends. To indicate and emphasize this argument, to shew how it advances from step to step, though its advance be veiled from us under Oriental modes of thought and expression, was my leading aim in writing this Commentary. I must also plead guilty to the ambition of writing an Exposition which any man of ordinary culture might read, as he reads other books, from end to end, with interest and even with pleasure; and not simply a Commentary to be consulted here or there, now and then. And it often tasked my ingenuity to give all necessary explanations on this passage and that, indirectly and allusively, without constantly bringing the reader to an abrupt haI had still another aim before me, which lay very close to my heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.