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Exile. This will account for the large amount of imitation to which the book gave rise. Men felt respecting the author that he was the first and greatest exponent of the ideas and feelings, not of a long-past age, but of their own; that he 'sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners' (Job xxix. 25).