God in History; Or, the Progress of Man's Faith in the Moral Order of the World 1
God in History; Or, the Progress of Man's Faith in the Moral Order of the World 1
Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr Von, 1791-1860
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The Words of KohdeOi, the Son of David, King over JeruecUem, This pathetic book is the attempt of a God-fearing Israelite to console his doubting and despairing contem- poraries with that final conclusion reached by Job. In form, this book is a collection of aphorisms, like the Pro- verbs of Solomon, and that renders it difficult to under- stand, since no coherent argumentative treatment of the subject is strictly compatible with this form. But it is plain that the author, like aU gnomic poets,... wished rather to suggest than to solve enigmas. Even the latest inves- tigations and proposed renderings of the critical school (those of Ewald and Hitzig) have left many passages still obscure. But two points stand out clearly enough, both as to the details and the general tenor of this work, namely, the earnestness of its author's moral theory of the world, and the comfortlessness of that theory. Wisdom is, in- deed, to him the most precious of all things, foUy con- temptible, and a mere outward service of God, at once irrational and sinful.
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