XX. The author of this last chapter, the Rev. Hermann

Strack, concludes by saying: "When we can obtain medicine let us not have a contempt for God's valuable gifts, but withal let us always and all the time rest our confidence and main comfort upon the only God."
The same conception of the Devil is presented with somewhat more poetical skill by Jacob Ruffs who drama-
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tised tlie story of Job and the parable of the vineyard. The latter, which was performed at Ziirich, Switzerland, in 1539, May 26, introduces Satan as he sows the seeds of sedition in the minds of the servants of the vineyard and induces them to slay the son of their master.