Word: jobbing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Samuel II. Job has been elected president of Trinity Glee and Banjo Club...
...Power that orders the world, nor evil displeasing; that good and bad fortune is meted out to all promiscuously and independently of any so-called "desert," There is no reason why those who are considered wicked should not have as much prosperity as anyone else. The second explanation is Job's, who thought that everything is now as it should be and that we should see that it was if our sight was clear enough. The third explanation is David's and seems to be the true one. He said his perplexity was solved when he entered God's sanctuary...
...purely intellectual side of religion is taken up. The question of the "Utility of obedience to moral law" is variously answered. From the prophetic point of view good men will always prosper; Job with much boldness endeavors to treat the subject from the stand point of human reason...
There are several peculiarities of the Old Testament. There is a biographical characteristic.- stories of individuals, from Genesis practically to Psalnis and Job. Then there is the intentional characteristic. The books were written for the sake of the lesson that the writers...
...order of literary production; folk-lore, followed by a collection of laws and brief annals, then by prophetic discourses, history and poetry,- but with out any philosophy. The collection of Prophets represents Hebrew oratory; the books of Judges, Samuel, Kings and Chronicles represent history; and the books of Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes represent poetry...