5. How much Job profited through the scourges in the knowledge of God and of himself. — By these words verily he plainly indicates that, as much as sight is superior to hearing, so much does he differ from that which he was before, and this which he afterwards attained through the scourges. And because with the inward eye he had beheld more the light of truth, judging the darkness of his humanity, he saw more. Whence also there follows: