can be captured in a phrase, even a motto-phrase. So much more, in fact, that at one time there were scholars ready to suggest that two, or three, or even as many as nine2 different minds had been at work on the book. Such are its cross-currents and swift changes; but they can all be seen as the insights of a single mind, approaching the facts of life and death from a variety of angles. At bottom we can find the axiom of all the wise men of the Bible, that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of