Note 122 — Chapter XIV · THE BOOK FROM A RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW.

‘The Church in all ages has regarded the one as a type of the other,’ Turner, Studies Biblical and Oriental, p. 150. But Del. has already dissuaded from insisting too much on the historic character of the story of Job. ‘The endurance of Job’ (James v. 11) is equally instructive whether the story be real (wirklich) or only ideally true (wahr); and if by the phrase ‘the end of the Lord’ St. James refers to the Passion of Jesus (to me, however, this appears doubtful), he can be claimed with as much reason for the view of Job here adopted as for the older theory advocated by Turner.