[Footnote 116: In the time of Job, the crime of impiety was
punished by the Arabian magistrate, (c. 21, v. 26, 27, 28.)
I blush for a respectable prelate (de Poesi Hebraeorum, p.
650, 651, edit. Michaelis; and letter of a late professor in
the university of Oxford, p. 15 - 53,) who justifies and
applauds this patriarchal inquisition.]