Where the Fathers quote Job 26

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Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 13:335B…esh are put to death. The Lord, therefore, who made the earth in his strength. But if you also come to this earth, and consider that which is written in Job [Job xxvi, 7], according to the most emended copies,… Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 395PG 45:1003B…since the earth is contained in the midst, and the circuit of the diverse elements sustains it from all sides, as Job says: Who hangs the earth upon nothing (Job xxvi, 7), it was necessary, when the light pass… Didymus the Blind c. 313–398PG 39:1517C…he one who founded the earth. It is also said of the Father: "God in wisdom founded the earth" (Prov. III, 19); and again: "Suspending the earth over nothing" (Job XXVI, 7), which implies that the earth was plac… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:107D…k with confidence, that these are not the works of nature, but of a Providence that exceeds nature? Therefore, one says: Who suspends the earth upon nothing (Job XXVI, 7); another, moreover, says: In His hand… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:639D…, it was also said concerning the Father: "God in wisdom founded the earth" (Prov. 3:19). And when it is said concerning God, "Hanging the earth upon nothing" (Job 26:7), it is signified that it occupied a pl… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:647C…unding it upon itself, he gave it immobility: and it remains in the same way as he himself willed. Thus also he says elsewhere: Hanging the earth upon nothing (Job 26:7). 6. The abyss, like a garment, is its… OrigenesPG 16:443…hell is naked before him and there is no covering for destruction he stretcheth out the north over empty space and hangeth the earth upon nothing he bindeth up the waters in his clouds that they… Caesarius of Nazianzus c. 330-368/369PG 38:945…leader of contests according to god a tower and a bulwark says and the cloud is not rent under it that is under the water but let this be understood also concerning the assumption of the… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 50:813C…igantur, palpebras efformantes : et natura curabat, colligabatur, ne proprium munus exsequi posset. Haec merces Domino. Ligatus est qui ligat aquas in nubibus (Job 26, 8), qui solvit vinctos in fortitudine, qu… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:389C…ys, "Raising up." A different one, "Drawing up from the extremities." Another, "From the ends." This was also said in Job: Binding up the water in his clouds ([Job 26:8]). And Solomon: Holding the water in a… Olympiodorus of Alexandria fl. 6th century (c. 500-570)PG 93:273…the whole race of birds b h v binding water in his clouds and the cloud is not rent under it h those things which we have never questioned nor admired because of habit these job… OrigenesPG 16:443…out the north over empty space and hangeth the earth upon nothing he bindeth up the waters in his clouds that they may not break forth together downwards he holdeth up the face of his throne… OrigenesPG 16:445…suspending the earth over nothing in the air binding water in his clouds and the cloud is not rent by him he who holdeth the face of the throne and spreadeth his cloud over it a… OrigenesPG 16:443…clouds that they may not break forth together downwards he holdeth up the face of his throne and spreadeth his cloud over it he hath set a bound about the waters until day and night come… OrigenesPG 16:443…cloud over it he hath set a bound about the waters until day and night come to an end aquila thou hast counseled raphaim upon the void… OrigenesPG 16:1337A…Aquila, Symmachus, in the Greek text , , [render as] tower. But erroneously, as Drusius rightly suspects. translates as rotation; it also translates Job 26:10. V. 28. Aquila translates , rotatio… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:45C…rent in every human being to fear death. TITLE IX. — Concerning the Sea. «By his power he stilled the sea, and by his wisdom he laid out its depth.» (Job xxvi, 12) «I shut in the sea with gates, when i… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1095C…talk. Allow God both to know and to do whatever is fitting for him. Title VI. — Concerning angels: that angels also are punished when they have sinned. Job xxvi, 13. — "By his command he destroyed the apo… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 47:441C…g the incomprehensibility of His wisdom and economy, since he had discussed creation: Lo these are parts of his way, and we shall hear a drop of a word in him (Job 26:14). But Jeremiah, foreseeing this very th…