Job 13:15 The object of the writer of the book of Job is to discuss a question which, from its interest no less than its obscurity, has been the subject of debate and anxiety in all ages: What is the precise connection between sin and suffering? a question which loses itself in turn in the still mo... [ Continue Reading ]
Job 13:23 There is a sense in which every one knows that he is a sinner. Every one admits it, just as he admits any abstract Scriptural truth. But a man of the world looks upon sin rather in its relation to himself and its relation to other people than in its relation to God how it is ungrateful to... [ Continue Reading ]
Job 13:26 I. Shadows are suffered to fall on us, and to overcast a while the brightness of God's firmament, partly to show us what hell is, and to make us flee from it. II. These afflictions, which are such a fiery trial to some of us, are in truth too often the shadows of our former sins. III. W... [ Continue Reading ]