Jewish%20thought for Sotah 54:15

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> אותו למאן אילימא לבעל בעל מאי עביד וכי תימא

AND NOT HALLEL. ON THAT DAY R. JOSHUA B. HYRCANUS EXPOUNDED: JOB ONLY SERVED THE HOLY ONE, BLESSED BE HE, FROM LOVE: AS IT IS SAID, THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I WAIT FOR HIM.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Job XIII, 15. ');">²⁶</span> AND SHOULD IT BE STILL DOUBTFUL WHETHER THE MEANING IS 'I WILL WAIT FOR HIM' OR 'I WILL NOT WAIT',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There is a variant in the text which gives the alternative translation. V. R.V. margin. ');">²⁷</span> THERE IS ANOTHER TEXT TO DECLARE, TILL I DIE I WILL NOT PUT AWAY MINE INTEGRITY FROM ME.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XXVII, 5. ');">²⁸</span> THIS TEACHES THAT WHAT HE DID WAS FROM LOVE. R. JOSHUA [B. HANANIAH] SAID: WHO WILL REMOVE THE DUST FROM THINE EYES, R. JOHANAN B. ZAKKAI, SINCE THOU HAST BEEN EXPOUNDING ALL THY LIFE THAT JOB ONLY SERVED THE ALL-PRESENT FROM FEAR, AS IT IS SAID, THAT MAN WAS PERFECT AND UPRIGHT, AND ONE THAT FEARED GOD. AND ESCHEWED EVIL!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. I, 1. ');">²⁹</span> DID NOT JOSHUA, THE PUPIL OF THY PUPIL,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He was the pupil of Akiba. ');">³⁰</span> TEACH THAT WHAT HE DID WAS FROM LOVE?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Buchler, Sin and Atonement, p. 140, suggests this controversy to have arisen in connection with the discussion whether the book of Job should be included in the Canon.] ');">³¹</span> <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. [The Mishnah states: SO THE WATER PROVES] HIM. Whom? If I say that it is the husband, what has the husband done? Should you reply

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