Where the Fathers quote Job 14
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John ChrysostomPG 49:91expounds v.7“εστι γαρ δενδρω ελπις· εαν γαρ εκκοπη ετι επανθησει και ο ραδαμνος αυτου ου μη εκλιπῃ·”The hypothesis of the creation, including: «Adam, where are you?» and on not swearing
1Job 14:1
Didymus the Blind c. 313–398PG 39:1165C…asis, just as among the heathens "sons of the Achaeans." Many things of this kind are also found in sacred Scripture; such as, "For mortal is he born of woman [Job XIV, 1]," and, "Among those born of women, the…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:689B…urbed: "Because the wisdom of the flesh is hostile to God: for it is not subject to the law of God" (Rom. 8.7). Nor can it be, Job saying, "Man born of woman" (Job 14.1), full of anger, not to be angry. W…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:775…a woman and another to be born from a woman he who is born of a woman is indeed born in a woman and has his beginning from a woman and before the woman he was…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1113C…«Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is full of wrath. Or as a flower that has blossomed he falls; and he flees as a shadow, and does not continue.» (Job XIV, 1, 2). «Man is rottenness, and the son o…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:219C…r own conscience. Didymus. — Neither does praise make a man good, nor does vituperation make him evil. TITLE X. — Of those who live a short time. Job xiv, 1. — “Blessed is he that is born of a wom…
3Job 14:3
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:233…dgment which is to come happens for the sake of the honor conferred upon him. Wherefore Job also says: "What is man, that you have brought him into judgment?" (Job 14. 3), just as elsewhere this same Psalmist…
4Job 14:4
Clement of Rome d. c. 100PG 1:171A…nd ashes; (Gen. xviii, 27) the humility of Job in this most true statement, which he passes down: No one is clean from filth, even if his life be but one day; (Job xiv, 4) the humility of Moses in the refusal h…
Clement of Rome d. c. 100PG 1:629A…s found without sin, except Him who for our sake became man; since it is written: "No one is clean from filth, not even if his life continues for but one day" (Job XIV, 4, in LXX). For this reason, the deeds an…
Clement of Alexandria c. 150 – c. 215PG 8:1291B…the argument more vehemently, I will say: 'Whatever man you name, he is a man, but God is just. For there is no one who is pure,' as someone said, 'from filth [Job xiv, 4].'" But the hypothesis of Basilides say…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:363…down, it will still sprout, and its germ will not fail. But a man, when he shall have died, has gone away: and a mortal when he shall have fallen, is no more" (Job 14:4-5, 7, 10). The second beginning. Elipha…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 59:491…do you not teach yourself?" (Rom. 2. 21); for the saying of the suffering Job must be sustained: "No one is clean from filth, even if his life be but one day" (Job 14. 4). [I have] no sin of the body: I must r…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 62:759D…ri say to these things, who are more impure than the impure and all impurity? For No one is clean from filth, even if his life be but one day upon the earth (Job XIV, 4-5). What then will the multitude say to t…
Symeon the New Theologian 949–1022PG 120:323A…ess, exalts himself, how can he not be foolish and blind? For what is said, "No one is without sin, except God alone, nor an infant whose life is of one day" [Job xiv, 4, 5 sec. LXX], is not said of those who…
Symeon the New Theologian 949–1022PG 120:489C…everyone. For it is not he, but the Holy Spirit who spoke and wrote through him. For if there is no man without sin, not even an infant whose life is one day (Job XIV, 4 sec. LXX), and no one can possess a pur…
Philip the Solitary fl. c. 1095PG 127:743C…d below, and so often, Scholia Chrysostom: "Who will boast that he has a clean heart: or who will profess that he is free from filth (Prov. xx, 9; Job xiv, 4)?" We all, therefore, have need of merc…
Photius of ConstantinoplePG 104:399A…ammon (a pattern). I Pet. II, 21. Verse 19, hōn ērxato (which he began to do). Acts I, 1; oudeis gar apo rhupou katharos (for no one is clean from filth). Job XIV, 4. Verse 33, thriambeūsai te kai paradei…
5Job 14:5
Clement of Alexandria c. 150 – c. 215PG 8:1199B…e themselves eunuchs" from all sin "for the sake of the kingdom of heaven," these are blessed, those who fast from the world. CHAPTER XVI. Jer. xx, 14; Job xiv, 5; Ps. L, 5; I Cor. ix, 27, expounded.…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:547D…of iniquities, no one shall endure" (Ps. CXXIX, 3). Remember, O Master, that "No one is clean from filth, not even if his life be but one day upon the earth" (Job XIV, 5). Remember, O Master, that "I was conce…
7Job 14:7
Olympiodorus of Alexandria fl. 6th century (c. 500-570)PG 93:167…and miserable may be at rest vers for there is hope for a tree if it be cut down it will sprout again and its branch will not fail if its root has grown old in…
9Job 14:9
Eutychius of Constantinople c. 512-582PG 86:2389B…ld migrate to the eternal, heavenly one. The same biographer also defends Eutychius regarding that controversy which he had with our great Gregory [Moral. in Job xiv. 9] (a), who was dwelling in Constantinopl…
10Job 14:10
Diodore of Tarsus d. c. 394PG 33:1701…e in judgment, was poorly understood by simpler men in the time of Origen, and what was the occasion of that error, 291. Certain passages of Scripture, such as Job xiv, 10, 14, which Cyril twists to prove the re…
13Job 14:13
Euthalius the Deacon fl. 5th c.PG 85:807A…for a short moment, for the whole course of human life is short—and then say, Until Thy wrath pass (Psal. cvii, 4), as another said, Until iniquity passes (cf. Job xiv, 13). For perhaps on account of the wrath o…
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John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:29B…actor. Small and great are there, and the servant fearing his lord." ⟦Job iii, 18⟧ "If a man dies, shall he live, having completed the days of his life?" ⟦Job xiv, 14⟧ "You shall come to the grave, as ripe…
Basilius Caesariensis MagnusPG 29:693A…e Arians, believing thus, worship Him, yet Job calls the devil the first work of God, saying: This is the first of the beginning of the creation of the Lord (Job XIV, 14), they are unwittingly worshiping the d…
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John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:155…to answer him. In that sense, the term hypakouein (to answer) is also used in Job 14:15, where the Septuagint has: kaleseis, e…
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Polycarp of Smyrna c. 69–c. 156PG 5:1027…fashioned him four elements coalesced but that the woman was formed from the dust of the earth and a rib into the likeness of the church a i and the lord god formed man of the…
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 15:163…the whole face of the earth and the lord god formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul and the lord…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 76:461A…Paul said, “Evil communications corrupt good manners” (I Cor. xv. 33); and, according to the saying of Solomon, “A dripping drop hollows out stone” (Job xiv. 19); if those harmful words fall bit by bi…