draw conclusions from the universal and particular do not work
in the case of the individual exception and:
It is asking too much of an ordinary reviewer
to be interested in the dialectical battle in which
the exception arises in the midst of the universal,
the protracted and very complicated procedure
in which the exception battles his way through
and affirms himself as justified,
for the unjustified exception is recognized precisely
by his wanting to bypass the universal. (226)
Job began like Abraham with a vision of land, nation and name
and he was promised he would attain his aesthetic dream if he
would be ethically good and follow the laws of God and he did that
and he did gain prosperity, posterity and rich blessings for all.
Then at step three of the dialectic he was challenged by the universal
and losing prosperity, posterity and blessing he stood face
to face with the problem of evil and wondered how a good God
could be so unjust as to punish him so when he was good.
Then in step four the universal order of God appeared in the great
storm and Job repented in infinite resignation and absolutely
loved the absolute so that he now in step five saw God anew.
In step six according to the epilogue of the miracle he got
his children back a second time and in step seven he was
prosperous once again having recovered the aesthetic.
This battle is the same one that the prodigal must go through
when he wants to win over the elder brother in reconciliation
for the elder brother represents the universal order of the law.
II.3.9 Loving the God-Man as More Important
So Job like Abraham is a type of the God-man who gives up all
for the other in a spirit of praising love that recollects the dead.
When Job first lost everything he still prayed: “The Lord has
given; the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.”
But, as he was taunted by his friends he began to give in
to temptation and sigh and lament the very day he was born.
Finally he wished he could take God before a court of law.
At first Job saw all the world as a gift from God and then he came
to see it only as the problem of evil that looked worse and worse.
So it was with Kierkegaard. He came to see himself as a problem.
He could no longer stand his depressed father and moved out.
He was a small, hunch-back, gay, little guy who could not
even write his thesis. He not only had problems; he was a problem.
He was a physical, social, sexual, intellectual mess of problems.
But then Regina loved him and he loved her and all his problems
turned into gifts for now he was reconciled with his father.
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