The Old Faith and the New Experience
Job 15:10
With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.


The Catholic doctrine has not yet been struck out that will fuse in one commanding law the immemorial convictions of the race and the widening visions of the living soul. The agitation of the Church today is caused by the presence within her of Eliphaz and Job — Eliphaz standing for the fathers and their faith, Job passing through a fever crisis of experience and finding no remedy in the old interpretations. The Church is apt to say, Here is moral disease, sin; we have nothing for that but rebuke and aversion. Is it wonderful that the tried life, conscious of integrity, rises in indignant revolt? The taunt of sin, scepticism, rationalism, or self-will is too ready a weapon, a sword worn always by the side or carried in the hand.

(R. A. Watson.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

WEB: With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.




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