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appears to him to be before the age df Moses , and at a period in which the Shnique families , who had settled themselves on the borders of the
desert , began to acquire a taste for agriculture ; about a hundred years after the children of Job [ " les enfans de Job" ] had gone down into Egypt . He says that it is written neither in Arabic nor in Hebrew ,
but in a dialect something between the Mosuical Hebrew and the Arabic ; that is to say , in the Semique language , such as was spoken in Idumea , when those variations of expression which irrevocably separated the Mosaical Hebrew , were as yet undecided . This idea led M Bridel
to attribute it to a Nachorite poet , who might have composed it in Jdumea , before the age of Moses , He here undertakes to refute various objections to the hypothesis which attributes I lie composition of it to a Nachorite , and
the objections to the antiquity of the work . He treats , with much learning , of the different authors to whom it has been attributed ; after which he proceeds to the examination of its ingenious conception , of its arrangement , and of its merit . " We must
not , " says he , ' * judge of the merit of this work by the rules of Aristotle , bat by its own intrinsic worth and the effects it produces . And first , it is calculated strongly to interest readers of every age , sex and
condition ; for it speaks to us continually of God and of man ; and on every occasion presents to our view the protection of the Creator and our own dependence , his power and our weakness , his greatness and our nothingness . "
M . Bridel next speaks of Elihu and of his discourses , examining the different opinions of the writers on this subject . He appears to favour those of M . Stiihlmann , who is persuaded that the discourses of Elihu are an
interpolation , and have no character of authenticity . As to the prologue and epilogue , which constitute the beginning and the end of the book , both written in prose , he thinks that we are authorized to believe them
purely allegorical pieces , but which may have their foundation in the history of some Eastern Emir , Relatively to the question of their being written by the same person , and
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during the same age as the poem , the author has given a dissertation which shews deep learning . JLastly , M . Bridel considers the book of Job canonical . ** This book bears internal marks of inspiration :
it is founded on the great principle of the Unity of God ; a principle which , at that epoch , could be known only by revelation . The morality which it contains is excellent . Jt is in unison with Christ and his holy apostles . "
He also believes that God has , in aii especial manner , watched over the preservation and integrity of the books of the Old Testament , and consequently over that of the book of Job . Which W , however- has not ore vented inch , howeverhas not prevented
, the transcribers from making faults of orthography , omissions and transpositions . words , phrases , and even whole sentences , which had been omitted in the text , have been written in the margin , and afterwards again inserted in the text , &c . These circumstances have had an influence on
the arrangement of the book of Job , It has been thought that many words and passages have been changed , many sentences omitted ; that variations have been removed from the margin to the text , and that there have been considerable interpolations , as well as alterations .
buch are the subjects » which M . BrideKs introduction embraces . We do not profess to approve or disapprove what he advances . The mere statement which we have placed before our readers implies neither assent nor criticism . We cannot , however ,
help admiring M . Bridel * s profound knowledge of the most ancient languages , and his assiduity in endeavouring to render them serviceable to the Christian religion . The author proceeds to gives us a translation of
the prologue of the book of Job ; of the twenty discourses of which , according to htm , the poetical part of the book is composed ^ of the epilogue , with an addition found in the Septuagint , and in the Version of Theodotio * i ; and lastly , of the four discourses of Elihu .
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424 JLord ' s Day not the Sabbath *
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Sm , Jukr 8 , 1839-OBSERVE , at p . 85 £ , ( col . 1 , > I an inace&raey vrftidh is , I believe , not very uncommon arnotog Chris-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/24/
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