|Synopsis Home||Job Introduction| Chapters 1 and 2 Chapters 4 to
31 Chapters 32 to 37 Chapters 38 to 42 Difference between Old
and New Testaments as to knowledge of redemption and a Redeemer
The Chetubim, or Hagiographa, in which I do not now comprehend
Daniel (though his book has a character distinct from the other
prophets) form a very distinct and interesting part of divine
revelation. None of them suppose an accomplished and known
redemption, in the New Testament sense of the word, though like
every blessing all is founded on it. In Job a single passage
gives a particular application of the term: "I have found a
ransom" (Copher). The Psalms recount we know, prophetically, the
sorrows and sufferings in which it was accomplished.But
redemption by blood is known by faith, when accomplished,
whether by the Jew or the Christian. Isaiah prophesies of
Israel's recognition of it fully. There were also, as we know,
shadows of it under the law. But the knowledge of eternal
redemption is christian knowledge, or that