Let us be imitators also of those who in goat- skins and sheep-skins '^ went about proclaiming the coming of Christ ; I mean Elijah, Elisha, and Ezekiel among the prophets, with those others to whom a like testimony is borne [in Scripture]. Abraham was specially honoured, and was called the friend of God ; yet he, earnestly regarding the glory of God, humbly declared, " I am but dust and ashes." '•♦ Moreover, it is thus written of Job, " Job was a righteous man, and blame- less, truthful, God-fearing, and one that kept himself from all evil." 's But bringing an accu-