Job

Righteous sufferer, protagonist of the Book of Job. His words are quoted to describe Van der Burch's innate charity.

Preliminaries

• TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI. — His words quoted to describe Van der Burch's charity: "From my infancy compassion grew up with me, and from my mother's womb it came forth with me."

  "truly may you say those words of holy Job: 'From my infancy compassion grew up with me, and from my mother's womb it came forth with me.'"

• THE LIFE OF CORNELIUS A LAPIDE. — Lapide left incomplete his commentaries on the books of Job

  "He left incomplete his commentaries on the books of Job and Psalms."

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• I. THE HELMETED PROLOGUE. — First book of the Hagiographa

  "And the first book begins with Job."

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Called "the model of patience"; his book begins in prose, flows into verse, ends in prose; prophesies the resurrection of bodies more clearly than anyone

  "Job, the model of patience -- what mysteries does it not embrace in its discourse?"