Where the Fathers quote Job 3

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Photius of ConstantinoplePG 101:876expounds v.5“εκλαβοι δε αυτην σκοτος και σκια θανατου, επελθοι επ᾿ αυτην γνοφος. καταραθειη η ημερα”174. How to understand Job’s words «Cursed be the day in which I was born» John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1189A…l-fly, the stumbling-block of Accaron, it shall not be so; from the bed upon which you have ascended, you shall not come down, but by death you shall die.» • Job III, 1. • Job opened his mouth and cursed his… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:495…vast mysteries b where he says cursed be the day in which i was born and the night in which they said behold a man child cursed be he that brought news to my father saying… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 17:515A…e could say very many other things about this discourse, let us cease and commemorate that which follows. "Let the day perish," he says, "in which I was born" (Job 3:3). The blessed Job undoubtedly says this… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 17:515A…says: "Let the day perish in which I was born," in accordance with all that is shown and recorded above, "and that night in which it was said: Behold a male" (Job 3:3). But when were you born, O blessed… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 17:517…saying let that day perish in which i was born and that night in which it was said behold a male a little later continuing he says and let that night be in pain he shows… Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:439…similar to those found in job cursed be the day in which i was born and the night in which they said behold a male why then was it cursed except because he was conceived in… Photius of Constantinople c. 810–c. 891PG 101:875…h how is that which is said of job to be understood let the day perish wherein i was born job curses the day of his birth selecting this among many causes that he was greatly… Photius of Constantinople c. 810–c. 891PG 101:1271…clxxiv how is that which is said of job to be understood let the day perish wherein i was born question clxxv what is that by myself i have sworn says the lord question clxxvi what… OrigenesPG 16:303…of job h the hebrew and he cursed the day on which i was born and the night in which it was said a man is conceived that day let him not require it let darkness… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:1459…habitation a city of habitation is the knowledge of god sitting in darkness and the shadow of death bound in poverty and iron in that the lord is light he leads us out of darkness in… Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:1323…empty soul and filled the hungry soul with good things sitting in darkness and the shadow of death bound in poverty and iron because they provoked the words of the lord and stirred up the counsel… Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:449…good things with the intelligible bread that is to say sitting in darkness and the shadow of death you would not be wrong if you called the shadow of death idolatry and the deeds done in… Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:1125…h de titulis psalmorum psal cvi h sitting in darkness and the shadow of death a bound in poverty and iron because they rebelled against the words of god and they provoked the… Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 395PG 44:471…from that which is truly life for he says those sitting in darkness and the shadow of death bound in poverty and iron bound indeed for he was unable to move away from evil held fast… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 64:577…not seek it from above nor may light come to it but let darkness and the shadow of death take it c when the righteous man saw the friends called by the atrocity of his evils… Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:1739…and filled the hungry soul with good things those who sat in darkness and the shadow of death bound in poverty and iron b he liberated the jews who were joined to servitude and misery and… Olympiodorus of Alexandria fl. 6th century (c. 500-570)PG 93:55…birth bring with it the memory of calamities but when he adds let darkness and the shadow of death receive it he prays that the evils which have happened to us through the devil might return… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1189…the lord seek it from above nor let light come upon it let darkness and the shadow of death seize it let a gloom come upon it let the day and that night be cursed let… Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 19:1425…therefore the kalends themselves of the month whose epacts are named do not come into the number of the epacts d therefore the prosthetai that is the epacts of the months are not the same as… Olympiodorus of Alexandria fl. 6th century (c. 500-570)PG 93:57…the case of the quadrennial period he says that it should neither come into the number of the months nor be numbered as a day of the year before the accustomed period and when it ought… Anastasius of SinaiPG 89:565…what then is this apparent curse b let that day he says not come into the number of the months nor let the lord seek it out from above let the stars of that night be… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 11:1649A…delete here either kai or te. He intends, moreover, that the cetus (sea-monster) which swallowed Jonah, is a type of that megalou ketous (great fish) of Job III, 8, through which he allegorically underst… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 11:1655D…d., line 9, "he has escaped." Read "has escaped" (ekpepheuge). Ibid., line 10, "the sea monster." Allegorically, to wit, the Devil. He refers to the words of Job iii, 8, according to the LXX: "he who is about… Didymus the Blind c. 313–398PG 39:1121A…o not be surprised; for Job was not uninitiated in the advent of the Savior, he who said that he is the one who is about to overcome the great sea monster (Job III, 8). Ver. 7. And the devil answering the… OrigenesPG 16:307…and let it not look upon the eyelids of the dawn and why the breasts that i should suck who fill their houses with silver as an untimely birth as infants who have not seen the… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:1147…from the womb to the grave for then i should have slept and been quiet i should have slept and been at rest with kings and counselors of the earth who boasted in swords and with… Maximus the Confessor c. 580–662PG 91:849…you, therefore, brethren, that you abound more, and that you use your endeavor to be quiet, and that you do your own business, and work with your own hands." Job iii, 13. — "Thou shalt rest, and there shall be… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1475A…TIT. IX. — Of those who do not give alms, but labor under tenacity, avarice, and the desire for money and riches. Job III, 16. — "The mouth of the unjust is stopped.… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 54:627D…ll comfort us" (Gen. V, 29), calling the flood "rest." For because the flood was to take place under him, and the flood was death, but death is rest for a man (Job III, 17), he therefore called him the author of… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 15:361…them be gathered. V. 13. A., and the exactors. Thus the Basilian codex; and Aquila himself translates the same word after this manner, cf. Job xxxvi, 7; at Job iii, 18, exactors. Ibid. Another: they made… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:29A…ey rested, fatigued in body; unanimously the eternal ones did not hear the voice of the exactor. Small and great are there, and the servant fearing his lord." ⟦Job iii, 18⟧ "If a man dies, shall he live, ha… Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 24:259…of persons with god for this reason it is said in job small and great are there and the servant who does not fear his master vers with corruption shall the earth be corrupted and with… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:363…"Just as a servant who fears his master, so light is given to them that are in bitterness, who desire death and do not obtain it. For death is rest for a man" (Job 3:19-21, 23). Receiving him, Eliphaz the Theman… Olympiodorus of Alexandria fl. 6th century (c. 500-570)PG 93:65…a small and great are there and the servant fearing his lord he who was rotting away teeming with worms and dripping with pus philosophized… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:29…unanimously the eternal ones did not hear the voice of the exactor small and great are there and the servant fearing his lord job iii b if a man dies shall he live having completed the… Gregory of Agrigentum c. 559 - c. 630 (traditionalPG 98:985D…Job which says: "Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul? Who long for death, and it comes not" [Job 3:20]. But the day of death for the upright… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:19B…and, having purified our souls, thus be able to attain the eternal goods. TITLE V. — Concerning those who are in affliction, cares, and sorrow. Job III, 20-21. — "Why is light given to those who are… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:393A…e death of sinners is evil" (Ps. 33:22); again, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints" (Ps. 115:15). And Job: "Death is rest to a man" (Job 3:23 and 17:16). And not only death, but it… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 52:579D…his, the same blessed Job, [to show] how much more bitter the tyranny of despondency is than death, called this rest: "For death," he says, "is rest to a man" (Job III, 23); and he sought it in place of grace, t… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 52:767A…great punishment: "On the day that you eat of it, you shall die the death" (Gen. 2:17). And the blessed Job called it by this name: "Death is rest for a man" (Job 3:23). And the prophet David said: "The deat… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 53:181C…eted as "rest." That total destruction, then, which was about to happen after so many years, he calls "rest"; just as Job also says: "Death is rest for a man" (Job 3. 23). Since wickedness holds a great and ve… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 54:629…languishing incurably, and in many evils, with no consolation admitted, was overwhelmed by the incoming flood, and made to rest. For if death is rest to a man (Job III, 23), much more so to those who live in mal… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:279C…es it not set free from labors? Does it not snatch away from cares? Do you not hear Job praising it, and saying: Death is rest to a man, whose way is hidden (Job 3:23)? Does it not rescind vice? For even if… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:547D…appear. Hear what the Scripture says concerning any man who has finished his life: "Death is a rest to a man, whose way is hidden; for God has closed him in" (Job III, 23). But where there is the closing of God… OrigenesPG 16:307…whom god has hedged in for before my bread comes my sighing and my roarings are poured out like water i was not at peace trembling the hebrew in greek characters aquila those prepared to stir… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 52:419A…consideration of the circumstances of his affairs. And so he said: The fear which I feared has come upon me, and the danger which I dreaded has met me (Job 3.25). For he always kept [his attention] fi… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:137B…the fear which I feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has met me. I had no peace, neither had I quiet, neither had I rest; yet trouble came (Job 3:25-26). And therefore another said: Remember… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 57:395C…y turned in his mind the calamities of others. And declaring this he said: "For the fear which I feared has come upon me, and that which I dreaded has met me" (Job III, 25). And again: "But I wept over every wea… Euthymius the Hagiorite c. 955-1028PG 96:1073C…light of my eyes, and you have cut the strength of my sinews. For the fear which I felt on your account has come upon me, and that which I dreaded has met me (Job III, 25). You have become a reproach to my enem… Theodore Meliteniotes fl. mid-14th c., d. 1393PG 149:923…and showing this he said for the fear which i feared has come upon me and that which i dreaded has met me and again but i wept for every man who was unable to bear… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 52:419A…self with it, hoping and awaiting; therefore, when it had arrived, it did not disturb him. I did not have peace, nor did I have rest, but wrath came upon me (Job 3.26). He did not say, "I do not have peace,…