shaken him and tempted him so severely. And indeed, he did not understand it until he went into the sanctuary of God. So he stopped trying to solve it, saying to himself, ‘Well, I must leave this main problem for the time being. I will say nothing about it because I can see that if I express my thoughts it will cause me to offend against the generation of God’s people. And I cannot do that. Very well; I will take my stand on what I am certain of, and be content not to understand the other matter