Ibid. — And still he holdeth fast his innocence. 2. Job more gloriously preserved his innocence under the scourge. — As if He plainly said: Thou indeed hast exercised thy malice, but he hath not lost his innocence; and whence thou didst think to lessen his advancement, thence thou hast been compelled to serve his advancement, because the innocence of mind which he gloriously held in tranquility, he hath more gloriously preserved under the scourge. There follows: