{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050362.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050362.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050362.htm","text":"(26.) Why Job Was So Great a Sufferer.\nAnd when he says concerning the Lord, \u201cFor many bruises hath He inflicted upon me without a cause,\u201d 1469 observe that his words are not, He hath inflicted none with a cause; but, \u201cmany without a cause.\u201d For it was not because of his manifold sins that these many bruises were inflicted on him, but in order to make trial of his patience. For on account of his sins, indeed, without which, as he acknowledges in another passage, he was certainly not, he yet judges that he ought to have suffered less. 1470","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Concer...","type":"page"}