shall see for myself," says Job, "and mine eyes shall behold, and not another," so natural was it to transfer the thought of these corporeal organs along with this personal identity, upon which he insists, even while speaking of himself as disembodied. We shall not here revive the curious and profitless speculations to which these words have given rise, nor shall we involve ourselves in any discussion as to whether Job means eyes of the soul or eyes of the body. It is enough that we find here suggested the intimacy of the link which binds the two parts of our nature together, and the powerful association which almost inevitably carries us forward from the continued life of the soul to the restored life of the body. And then, when we add to this the ambiguity of certain expressions here employed, and which may not have been wholly unintended (shall we say?) by the Spirit of truth, so that they yield themselves readily to the setting forth of the doctrine of the resurrection, as shown in our own English translation and in various other versions, ancient and modern, it will appear that this passage has not been without important bearings, at least, upon the history of the belief in this great and cardinal doctrine of the gospel of the Son of God, if not upon its actual disclosure in the course of divine revelation. JOB REFUTES HIS FRIENDS. THE crisis of the temptation is past, but Job's perplexity is not yet removed. He refuses to be driven from his constant trust in God by all the influences that Satan has arrayed against him. Amidst all the seeming evidences of God's hostility, he maintains his confidence in him as his Redeemer. He who is afflicting him now will effect his deliverance hereafter. But the time of this deliverance has not yet come. He is walking in darkness, trusting in the Lord. The storm of calamity continues without abatement, and the mystery of his sorrows is still unsolved. Hitherto Job has spoken principally to God. It was with Him that he had to do, rather than with his friends. That which has been chiefly agitating him, and which was in fact the mainspring of the temptation, was the question of |