eome on(! to &(lt, in thllt,oapaoity." Arter pervades the paese.ge. .&lld mine eyes 1hall a.II this, it ie not taking e. very long step in behold, e.nd not another ; i.e. " not the eyea adve.nce to see e.nd acknowledge in God his of e.nother." I myself, retaining my penvmal Goel, or "Redeemer." And the.t he she.It identity, " the same trne living me.n," shall 1tand e.t the latter cle.y upon the earth; with my own eyes look on my Redeemer. rnther, and tlmt. at tlie last 1,s· ,lwll stand up Though my reins be conlJ'Qllled within me. over my dust. Jl11Jt:! is not "one who comes There is no "though '' in the oril{ine.1. The artor me,"'but, If e. noun, "the le.et one," e.e cle.use is detached and independent, nor is JirdN' is "the first one "(Isa.. :rliv. 6); if it very easy to trace any connection between it e.ud the rest of the verse. Sohnltens, intended e.dverbially: "at the iaet "-i.e. e.t however, tltinks Job to mean the.t he is tl1e·encl of e.11 Winge.· "At the lo.tter cle.y" internally consumed by e. burning desire to il! not e.n ilDproper tranelo.tion. see the sight of whioh lie has spoken. (So Ver. 26.--'-:.&nd thoagh a.ftermy skin worms e.lso Dr. Stanley Lea.thee.) destroy this body. . The ·supposed ellipsis of " worms " is improbable, e.e is e.lso that of weVer. 28.-Bnt ye should say, Why perseonte him 1 re.ther, if ye •hall eay, How eh.all we •• body.". Translate, and after my sl,in h(l,/j been thus destroyed--". thus" meaning, "as persecute him 1 That is to say, "If, after you see it before your eyes." Yet in my me, what I he.ve said, ye continue bitter against tleeh shlill 1 see Gqd; literally, from my flesh way ancl take counsel together as to the best of persecuting me, then, seeing the root -scarcely, as Jlenan te.kes it, "without my o! the matter (I.e. the essence of piety) ii 11esh," or "away from my 11eel;i. "-" prive de fi>nnd in me, he ye e.fraid," etc. ma.. che.ir; " but rather, "from the stancl- point of my flesh :•..:..u in ,my body," not "out Ver. 29.-Be ye afraid o! the sword; i.e.. of my body"-sbaU I_see God. This may "the sword of God's justice, which will be taken_. merely as ·a prophecy of the theo- assuredly smite you if you persecute 11.n phany :recorded· in eh .. xxxviii.-xlii. (see innocent man." For wrath bringeth the eepedally 'Oh. xiii. 5).' .But the nex:ne with punishments of the sword; rather, /OT wTath ver. 25, and the expressions there used-'' at is among the transgTe1sions of the ll'IDO'Td; i.e. the. la.et," and "he shall stand• up over my among the tre.nsgressious for which the du~t ''-fully justify the tradi_tional exegesis, sword is the fit punishment. It is "wmth" wh.ich_sees in the passage an-,avowa.l by Job which leads Job's" comforters" to persecute oChis confidence. that he will.see God ''from him. That ye may know there is a judgment; his body " at the ·resurrectio~. . or, so that ye wi'll know there is a jwlgment. • Ver. 27,-:-Whom. I slie.11 see for myself, When the blow comes upon them they will Not by proxi'i.e., or throii~h faith, or in a recognize that it has come npon them on vision, b.ut really, actually, I shall see him account of their ill treatment of theiz for,'myselj. . As Schultens _observes, an un- · friend. mistakable tone of exultation and triumph
HOMILETICS. . . Vere. 1-:-:-22.-Job to Bildad :_ 1. A reply, an appeal, a- complaint. I. Jon's WBA.TR- FU,L BEJ::LY TO BIB FBIENJ;>S. Job ll.ccuses his three friends of: 1. Irritating words. (V' er. 2.) Their solemn addresses and eloquent descriptions were an exquisite torture, harder to endure than tl;ie miseries of ,elephantiasis. The cruel insinuations and unkind reproaches, contained in their speeches crushed him more deeply and lacerated him more keenly than all the sharp strokes of evil fortune -he had lately suffered. Wounds inflicted , by the tongue are worse to heal tha.n those given by the hand. " There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword" (Prov. :xii. 18); and to "ta.lk to the grief of tho~e whom God has wounded" (Ps. lxix. 26) is the severest of all kinds of persecu- tion ~ sust11,in, as it is the wickedest of all sorts of crimes to commit. 2. Persistffit hostility. (Ver. 3.) Not once or twice simply had they charged him with being a notorious criminal, but they ha.d harped upon this same string ad nauseam; they had carried, th,eir insulting behaviour to the furthest limits; the force of their acrimoniollll opposition could not further go. Their reproaches had well-nigh broken his great heart; cf. the language of David, who in his sufferings was a type of Messiah (Ps. 1:xi.x. 20). 3• .Astounding callousness. (Ver. 3.) Joh was simply a.mazed at the cool indifference with which they could behold his sufferings, the unfeeling ease, if not the manifest delight, with which they could hurl their atrocious impea.chments against him, and the uUer inseljlJ!ibility which they displayed to his piteous appeals THE OOOK OF JOB.