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Wilhelm Vischer on the Question Driving the Book of Job

By D. Lewis, 24 April 2008

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“Shall we accept the good from God, but the evil shall we not accept?” ... Vischer notes that Job keeps his focus on God rather than the goods that God grants. He writes with respect to Job’s second saying, „Er will nicht Güter, nicht das Gute, er lebt von Gottes Güte, die jenseits von gut und böse ist.“

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