[60]. Blake, Songs of Experience.
[61]. Purg., iii. 37.
[62]. Inf., iii. 5, 6.
[63]. Parad., xxxiii. 142.
[64]. Parad., xxxiii. 91.
[65]. [All his thinkings seemed like hearsay. This, then, was the real God.] So an anonymous writer well expresses it (Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance, p. 196).
[66]. Etudes sur l’antiquité historique, prem. éd., pp. 391-393.
[67]. Other readers, however, found no difficulty in the close of the story; to such St. James addresses himself in the words, ‘Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord’ (James v. 11), i.e. the blessed end vouchsafed by the Lord to Job. It was also, no doubt, such a reader who composed the beautiful romance of Tobit, to show that, however tried, the righteous man is at last delivered by his God.
[68]. Those rabbis who in later times held this view appear to have assumed that Job was of the Israelitish race (Frankl in Grätz’s Monatsschrift, 1872, p. 311).
[69]. Book of Job (1836), E. T. i. 7.