Old Testament VI: Job
Overview
The excerpts in this collection focus on systematic treatment. Among Greek texts are those from Origen, Didymus the Blind, Julian the Arian, John Chrysostom, Hesychius of Jerusalem and Olympiodorus. Among Latin sources we find Julian of Eclanum, Philip the Priest and Gregory the Great. Among Syriac sources we find Ephrem the Syrian and Isho’dad of Merv, some of whose work is made available here for the first time in English.
Top Highlights
“This text means that if we actually experienced only misfortunes, we would still need to bear them. God is Master and Lord. Does he not possess the power to send us anything? Why did God provide us with our goods? He did not do so because we deserved them. God was absolutely free to send us only afflictions. If he has also granted us goods, why do we complain? Notice how [Job] does not speak anywhere about faults or good actions but only says that God has the power to do whatever he wants. Recall your former happiness, and you will have no problem in bearing the present difficulties. It is sufficient, as our consolation, to know that it is the Lord who sends them to us. Let us not speak about justice and injustice.” (Page 13)
“You see the greatness of Job’s external wealth; but his internal wealth was even greater. The visible riches were splendid, but the invisible riches were even more splendid because they last; visible riches grow old, lose their value and continually collapse into the most pitiful corruption and destruction.” (Page 2)
“Naked was I formed from the earth at the beginning, as if from a mother’s womb. Naked to the earth shall I also depar” (Page 7)
“Job counted the will of his Lord his greatest possession and through obedience to that will his soul was enriched” (Page 9)
“Only by seemingly losing them are we made aware that they can never be preserved by our own efforts” (Page 6)
- Title: Old Testament VI: Job
- Authors: Manlio Simonetti, Marco Conti
- Series: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (Rev.)
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2006
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:nicene
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Job › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9780830897315, 9780830814763, 9780830843411, 0830897313, 0830814760, 0830843418
- Resource ID: LLS:ACCSREVOT06
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:05:11Z