For Calvin then, the Book of Job is first and foremost a book about God.27 Its accents are essentially theological in nature. In that sense, Calvin had not turned to Job because of its obvious themes of suffering and trial: Calvin did not believe the book of Job contained solutions to these great moral dilemmas of the universe. Rather, he sought to turn the congregation in Geneva, and his own soul, to the reality of God’s sovereignty and power in the contingencies of seemingly disordered life. Nowhere
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