"Of unknown date and unknown authorship, the language impregnated with strange idioms and strange allusions, unjewish in form, and in fiercest hostility with Judaism, it [the Book of Job] hovers like a meteor over the old Hebrew literature, in it, but not of it; compelling the acknowledgment of itself by its own internal majesty, yet exerting no influence over the minds of the people; never alluded to, and scarcely ever quoted, till at last the light which it had heralded rose up full over the world in Christianity." J. A. FROUDE, M.A. "I call that [the Book of ever written with pen. it, equal to it." Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things THOMAS CARLYLE. THE BOOK OF JOB Exegetically and Practically Considered. CONTAINING NINETY-ONE HOMILETIC SKETCHES. BY DAVID THOMAS, D.D. AUTHOR OF THE PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHER," COMMENTARIES ON "MATTHEW" AND "ACTS OF THE " COMPILER OF BIBLICAL LITURGY; ETC. ETC. CRITICALLY REVISED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY SAMUEL DAVIDSON, D.D., LL.D., AUTHOR OF 66 INTRODUCTIONS TO THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS," "THE CANON OF THE BIBLE," ETC. ETC. SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15, WATERLOO PLACE. |