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On the Advantage of Patience

Cyprian of Carthage

Section 18

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Author: Cyprian of Carthage

18. Thus Job was searched out and proved, and

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was

raised

up

to

the

very

highest

pinnacle

of

praise

by

the

virtue

of

patience

.

What

darts

of

the

devil

were

sent

forth

against

him

!

what

tortures

were

put

in

use

!

The

loss

of

his

estate

is

inflicted

,

the

privation

of

a

numerous

offspring

is

ordained

for

him

.

The

master

,

rich

in

estate

,

and

the

father

,

richer

in

children

,

is

on

a

sudden

neither

master

nor

father

!

The

wasting

of

wounds

is

added

;

and

,

moreover

,

an

eating

pest

of

worms

consumes

his

festering

and

wasting

limbs

.

And

that

nothing

at

all

should

remain

that

Job

did

not

experience

in

his

trials

,

the

devil

arms

his

wife

also

,

making

use

of

that

old

device

of

his

wickedness

,

as

if

he

could

deceive

and

mislead

all

by

women

,

even

as

he

did

in

the

beginning

of

the

world

.

And

yet

Job

is

not

broken

down

by

his

severe

and

repeated

conflicts

,

nor

the

blessing

of

God

withheld

from

being

declared

in

the

midst

of

those

difficulties

and

trials

of

his

,

by

the

victory

of

patience

.

Tobias

also

,

who

,

after

the

sublime

works

of

his

justice

and

mercy

,

was

tried

with

the

loss

of

his

eyes

,

in

proportion

as

he

patiently

endured

his

blindness

,

in

that

proportion

deserved

greatly

of

God

by

the

praise

of

patience

.