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    The Divine Drama of Job
    The Divine Drama of Job
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    The Divine Drama of Job

    By Charles F. Aked

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    Step into the profound exploration of human suffering and faith with 'The Divine Drama of Job' by Charles F. Aked, D.D. In this illuminating work, the revered theologian unravels the layers of the timeless biblical story of Job, offering profound insights into the complexities of human existence and the enduring quest fo

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    PublisherAlicia Editions
    Release dateJan 19, 2024
    ISBN9782384552566
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      The Divine Drama of Job - Charles F. Aked

      Chapter 1

      The Insurrection of Doubt

      T owering up alone, far away above all the poetry of the world—so runs the famous criticism of the Book of Job pronounced by one of the most noted men of letters of the nineteenth century. ¹ Did Carlyle influence Froude in this opinion as in some others? At least Froude may have been driven to study Job afresh when Carlyle’s Heroes fell into his hands, some thirteen years before he wrote his luminous exposition. Carlyle would have it that Job, apart from all theories about it, is one of the grandest things ever written with pen. A noble book, he insists; all men’s book. . . grand in its sincerity, in its simplicity, in its epic melody, and repose of reconcilement. And he multiplies words of admiration, indeed, of awe: Sublime sorrow, sublime reconciliation; oldest choral melody as of the heart of mankind;—so soft and great; as the summer midnight, as the world with its seas and stars. There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible or out of it, of equal literary merit. ²

      1. THE PLOT.

      Job is a man, in the far-off patriarchal days, rich in herds and flocks; rich, too, in sons and daughters; rich in the esteem of all his world, honoured, powerful, and great. After calamity falls upon him he looks back with blended pride and sadness to the time of his prosperity:

      "When I went forth to the gate unto the city.

      When I prepared my teat in the street,

      The young men saw me and hid themselves,

      And the aged rose up and stood:

      The princes refrained from talking,

      And laid their hand on their mouth;

      The voice of the nobles was hushed,

      And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

      For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me;

      And when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me:

      Because I delivered the poor that cried,

      The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

      The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me;

      And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy."

      JOB XXIX. 7-13.

      Unmerciful disaster brings him very low. A robber band sweeps down upon his oxen and his asses and carries them away, and his men-servants they put to the sword. Other bandits carry off his camels and kill the young men in charge of them. A fire destroys his sheep. And then a great wind from the wilderness smote the four corners of the house in which his children held high festival, so that seven tall sons and three fair daughters die together. Job is attacked by a loathsome disease. Bereaved, afflicted, lonely, steeped in poverty to the very lips, like many of the distressed amongst the children of men before his day and since, he wished that he had never been born.

      Friends come to condole with him. They are three in number, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, men of strangely diverse temperament and habit of mind. They come to him in entire friendliness. They approach him with respect, even with reverence, for they have not to be told that sorrow like this sorrow is a sacred thing. Seven days and seven nights they sit upon the ground near to him, their garments rent, with ashes on their heads. And none spake a word unto him; for they saw that his grief was very great. When, however, Job begins to give sorrow words, his friends are shocked, and, very mildly at first, with consideration and deference and tenderness, they venture to remonstrate with him and entreat him to restrain the utterances of grief which seem to them profane. And when Job, unrelieved by their sympathy and unconsoled by their preaching, persists in his outcry against the evil fate which has overwhelmed him, they lose patience and roundly reproach him. They do more. They tell him, in effect, that in some way he has brought these misfortunes on himself. Though they cannot lay their hands upon the secret sin which has called down upon him the judgment of an offended God, yet they are very sure that such secret sin there is. His protestations of innocence are in their eyes added proof of guilt. God has ordained that light shall shine upon the ways of the righteous man while the lamp of the sinner shall be put out. Had not Job so deeply sinned he would not now so deeply suffer. And since his sufferings are visible unto all men it cannot but be that heaven has visited upon him the recompense of his guilt. His denials add hypocrisy to iniquity and crown disobedience with insolent defiance of the Most High!

      These charges, false and foolish as they are, and false as Job knows them to be, increase his misery. To the gloom in which he sits they add the horror of a great darkness which can be felt. And still the accusations are piled up against him. They grow more pointed, more definite, as the controversy proceeds. They deepen in intensity. They increase in violence. And Job writhes beneath them. They are false, and though every living human being pronounce them true he knows them false. Though earth go reeling back to chaos he will yet deny and denounce and damn the slanders which affront his soul.

      Before the end Jehovah intervenes. Although Job did not know it, Jehovah, in the days of the great man’s prosperity, had affirmed the righteousness of His servant’s life. He had said that there was none like him on the earth. He had described Job as an upright and a perfect man, one who feared God and turned from evil. Now He sternly rebukes the friends who so misrepresent Him to the suffering man. His wrath is kindled against them because they have not spoken of Him the thing that is right. And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job and gave him twice as much as he had before. Oxen and sheep and camels were multiplied to him; sons and daughters were born to him: in the land were found no women so fair as the daughters of Job: and his days were long in the land.

      2. AUTHOR AND ORIGIN.

      Is this story fact or fiction, history or parable? Did such

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