Verse 1. — There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job. 15. The allegorical sense. — Christ designated by the name of Job. — These things we believe to have been done according to the history, but let us now see in what manner they were fulfilled by allegory. For Job, as we have said, is interpreted 'grieving': and Hus, 'counsellor.' Whom, then, does blessed Job express by his name, save Him of whom the prophet speaks, saying: 'He hath borne our sorrows' (Isa. liii, 4)? Who inhabits the land of Hus, because He reigns in the hearts of the counselling people. For Paul says that Christ is 'the power of God, and the wisdom of God' (1 Cor. i, 24). And this same Wisdom says by Solomon: 'I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts' (Prov. viii, 12).
Job, therefore, inhabits the land of Hus, because Wisdom, which for our sake endured the sorrow of the Passion, made for itself a habitation in the hearts given over to the counsels of life.