Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsJob 1
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Read Job 1 in the BibleJob 1:5
Offered holocausts for every one.
Albeit the virtue of Sacrifice as well of Holocaust in the old Testament, as especially of Christ's Sacrifice in the New, ◦ is of infinite value in it-self, yet the application thereof to particular persons and purposes is limited, and therefore holy Job offered not only once for all his children, but many times, severally for every one. Whereof see Cardinal Allan li. 2. de Eucharist. Sacrific. c. 35.
- ◦ Sacrifice being of infinite virtue, yet the value in application is limited.
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Job 1:1
Simple, right, and fearing God.
Moyses, Samuel, Esdras, and other Prophets writ there own acts among others, [1] also their own prayers, speaking of themselves in the third person, and so did holy Job, humbly, truly, and simply, without vain glory, or arrogancy, as S. Gregory noteth, [2] saying: Blessed Job, inspired with the Holy Ghost, might well write his own acts, which were the gifts of supernal inspiration. [3] God being the principal cause efficient of all good men's works, and men the secondary cause of the same. Moreover Job's singular patience and other virtues are likewise commended in other Scriptures and by ancient Doctors. Tobiæ 2. God permitted tentation to happen unto Tobias, that example might be given to his followers of his patience, as of holy Job. S. James (c. 5.) exhorting to patience, saith: You have heard the suffering of Job, and you have seen the end of our Lord. [4] Tertullian (li. de patientia) admiring Job's patience exclaimeth thus: O most happy man! Whom neither the driving away of his flocks of cattle, nor consuming of the rest with fire, nor the loss of his children, nor torments of his body, could drive from patience: but he stood immovable in the service of God, for example to us, that we fall not for any worldly damage, loss of dearest friends, or corporal afflictions. And blessed be God, by whose blessing we may now say: O happy English Catholics, [5] that patiently suffer the very same kinds of tribulation (though not in so great a degree) in our time! S. Cyprian (li. de bono patientiæ) Job examined and proved by the virtue of patience, was advanced to the very height of praise, a rich lord in possession, and a more rich father in children, suddenly was neither lord, nor father: was also most grievously afflicted in his flesh: and that no tentation might be wanting, the devil armed his wife against him, yet was he not moved, but by victorious patience thanked God for all. In like sort other holy fathers, for encouragement and consolation of the afflicted, write much of holy Job's invincible patience. [6] Above all S. Gregory, our Apostle, dilateth most excellently in thirty and five whole books, describing and proposing his so great virtues to be imitated by all Christians, first of all (li. 1. c. 5.) observing how great a praise it is to be good in such a place, in the middes of a crooked and perverse nation, shining as a light in the world, dwelling in the gentiles, where was the seat of Satan, a lily amongst thorns. [7]