A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Job
Overview
Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.
Top Highlights
“They have already exhausted what is possible in reproaches—they have done their utmost” (Page 452)
“More than one-third of the Old Testament is poetry.” (Page viii)
“The Hebrew poet lives and moves in the idea of a living God, as a self-revealing, personal, almighty, holy, omniscient, all-pervading and merciful Being, and overflows with his adoration and praise.” (Page x)
“Job’s ignorant words had ‘darkened’ God’s plan by obscuring or keeping out of sight its intelligent benevolent features” (Page 601)
“Thus strongly does Eliphaz accuse Job here; for, entangled in legalism, he thinks that if the impossibility that God should cause the innocent to suffer be once for all firmly held, then, from the severity of the sufferings inflicted on any one, we may argue the greatness of the transgressions which are thus punished,—a piece of bad logic, seeing that it entirely overlooks the intermediate possibility which lies between those two extremes, that God may inflict suffering on such as are friends indeed, but not yet perfected in their piety, with a view to their trial or purification.” (Page 488)
- Title: A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Job
- Authors: Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff, Tayler Lewis, Otto Zöckler, L. J. Evans
- Series: Lange’s Commentary
- Publisher: Faithlife
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Job › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:LANGE18JOB
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T17:03:06Z