CONTENTS. THE EPISTLE, Wherein he explains the time, occasion, division, plan, and the method of discourse and of interpretation pursued in his work. Page 1 THE FIRST PART. THE PREFACE, Wherein he in few words goes through the particulars, which are to be laid open in the course ofthe entire work. 14 BOOK I. The first verses of the first chapter of the Book of Job are explained first historically, then in an allegorical, and lastly in a moral sense. 32 BOOK II. From the sixth verse of the first chapter to the end, he foUows oat the exposition according to the threefold interpretation. 67 BOOK III. The whole of the second chapter of the book of Job is explained after the manner of the former Books, historically, allegorically, and morally. 130 BOOK IV. Wherein Gregory, having in the Preface set forth in few words, that the letter of Scripture is at times at variance with itself, and that the im- precations of Job, as of Jeremiah and David, cannot be understood without absurdity according to the sound which they convey, explains the words of Job in historical, mystical, and moral sense, from the commencement ofthe third chapter to the twentieth verse ofthe same. 177 BOOK V. He explaiu^ the remainder ofchap. iii. from ver. 20. the whole of rhap. iv. and the first two verses of rhap. v. 241