In the Book of Job, Job is a man raised on strong Christian principles. He believes strongly in the word of God and practices all of the duties set forth by God for man on Earth to follow to gain his favor. Job lives before the crucifixion of Christ that promises forgiveness for all sins but he is the closest man alive to following the will of a vengeful God. Both Job and Candide follow their philosophies strictly while everything remains good in their lives. Candide finds his world crashing around him after he is caught by the Baron kissing Cunegonde, and he is flogged and banished from the castle. Shortly after his departure, Bulgarian armies find him and, as Voltaire describes, he is forced "to run the gauntlet thirty-six times and actually endured two floggings. The regiment was composed of two thousand men. That made four thousand strokes, which lay open every muscle and nerve from his nape to his butt." Eventually the King of Bulgaria saves him, and he escapes to find Pangloss, now a beggar. Pangloss tells of the destruction of the castle of the Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh and the apparent death of the family. Although devastated by the loss of his love Cunegonde, Candide manages to keep his belief in optimism. Pangloss aides his belief by stating that he has caught a venereal disease that can be traced back to the Americas, but he believes that it is okay due to his belief in optimism. He explains to Candide, ". . . it's an indispensable part of the best of worlds a necessary ingredient; if Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal." Job also manages to keep his beliefs through his first trials of faith. After Satan challenges God that Job cannot keep his strong faith if he did not have his magnificent success, God tells Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.