The same place. — Thus did Job all the days. 14. Job's perseverance. — For it is written: 'He that shall persevere unto the end, the same shall be saved' (Matt. x, 22; xxiv, 13). In the sacrifice, therefore, holy action is shown; but in all the days of sacrifice, the constancy of holy action is shown. These things we have run through briefly in following the history; now the order of exposition demands that, resuming the beginning, we should already lay open the secrets of the allegories.