# Job — The City of God character guide

> Job in The City of God by Augustine of Hippo.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Cato, Cato the saintly Job, who endured dreadful evils in his body rather than deliver himself from all torment by self-inflicted death, conquered Cato

**First appearance:** 0002-part-i-book-i

## Who they are

Patient sufferer from the Old Testament, an example of endurance and faith in trials.

## In the story

### [Book I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-i)

Exemplar of faithful endurance, quoted for his response to losing all possessions: 'The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away.'

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ix)

Exemplar of fortitude and unmercenary love for God under affliction.

### [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x)

Cited as an example of faithful endurance, saying 'The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away.'

### [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiv)

Cited as a saintly example who endured dreadful bodily evils rather than take his own life.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv)

Subject of the book where the devil is described as the beginning of God's creation made a sport to angels.

### [Whether before Christian times there were any outside of the Israelite race who belonged to the fellowship of the heavenly city](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xlvii)

Cited as a holy man from the Idumean race who belonged to the spiritual Jerusalem.

### [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xix)

Cited as an example of Satan's real, non-deceptive works permitted by God.

### [Of the Beatific Vision](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxix)

Cited for his vision of God and prophecy of seeing God in the flesh.

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