the inseparability of the divine attributes, a principle that allowed him to recognise that God’s justice and power are inseparable from God’s goodness. Because he understood the inseparability of the divine attributes, Calvin’s Elihu rightly charged Job with wrongly accusing God of acting according to an absolute or tyrannical power.15 In particular, Elihu sees adversity as educative16 rather than necessarily retributive. Adversity is often pedagogic, for “sometymes it is his will too trie the