PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Job, affliction, and the stripping of everything that once held us together “Sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything.” — Abba Moses the Black There are passages in Scripture that frighten us because they tear away every polite religious illusion we prefer to keep intact. This is one of them. Job is not merely suffering. He is being stripped. The Fathers would not read this first as a story about divine cruelty, nor as some cold philosophical argument about e