Where the Fathers quote Job 40

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John ChrysostomPG 49:91expounds v.22“σκιαζονται δε εν αυτω δενδρα μεγαλα συν ραδαμνοις και κλωνες αγρου.”The hypothesis of the creation, including: «Adam, where are you?» and on not swearing John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:367C…he says, "will you draw the lion with a hook, and will you put a bridle around his nose? And all things sailing together will not carry one skin of his tail" (Job 40:2, 9-11 etc. [fragmentary reference]; 41:… Procopius of Gaza c. 465–528PG 87:573…and others "girded with one girdle." Job, needing to be restrained by one girdle, hears God saying: “Gird up your loins like a man, and give answer” (Job XL, 2). The divine David testifies that he is bound by this girdl… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 48:855C…picuous. Endure, therefore, that you may also hear that saying, "Do you think that I spoke to you for any other reason, than that you might appear righteous?" (Job xl, 3). That those things which you have alre… Isidore of Pelusium d. c. 450PG 78:631C…ld you shall have tribulation" (John XVI, 33). And it was also said to Job (89): "Do you think that I have spoken otherwise than that you should appear just?" (Job XL, 3). For, "whom the Lord loves he discipli… Antonius Melissa fl. 11th centuryPG 136:1175…myself earth and ashes" (Job XLII, 5-6). "Once I have spoken, Lord, but at the second time I will not speak. For who am I, to plead my cause in your sight?" (Job XL, 4-5). Ps. XXI. "I am a worm and no man, a r… Olympiodorus of Alexandria fl. 6th century (c. 500-570)PG 93:419…to these things i will lay my hand upon my mouth vers once have i spoken but i will not add to it what says he shall i put forward against the things that have been… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 48:1043C…s punished here, so that he might claim his reward there. For what does God say to him? "Otherwise you think that I answered you, that you might appear just?" (Job 40:8). Exhibiting, therefore, the same patie… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 52:443B…been prepared. God, almost as if excusing himself to Job, says: "Do you think that I have answered you in any other way than that you might appear righteous?" (Job 40:8). They laid traps, they stirred up war,… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:669D…lf declares this, when he permitted the devil to tempt, saying to Job: Think you that I have dealt with you otherwise, than that you might appear righteous? (Job 40:8). For what fire is to gold, that the te… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:563…n in the world gloriously crowned by God. For He addresses him thus: "Do you think that I have answered you in any other way than that you might appear just?" (Job 40:8). Who, therefore, could praise such a f… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 59:211C…ome so that we may be rendered more approved; hence God says to Job: †Dost thou think that I have otherwise dealt with thee, that thou mightest appear just? (Job 40:8)† But why, when these things are being… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 62:645C…se things for the sake of being tested; for hear God saying to Job, "Do you think that I have dealt with you otherwise, than that you might appear righteous?" (Job 40:8). But sinners, even if they occasionall… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:651…s punished here, so that he might receive his reward there. For God says to him, Do you think I have answered you otherwise, except that you might appear just (Job 40:8)? Did he therefore pervert the counsel… Isidore of Pelusium d. c. 450PG 78:1381B…g for the sake of crowns, the divine oracle testified to Job bears witness: "Do you think that I have answered you otherwise than that you might appear just?" (Job xl, 8). Therefore, whether we are being exerc… Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 83:1183C…righteous Lawgiver revealed the cause of the trials, saying: "Do you think that I have dealt with you in any other way than that you might appear righteous?" (Job XL, 8). I believe that your piety also hears… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:65B…e judgments of God: and that one ought not to be distressed if the just are afflicted with calamities, while to the unjust all things succeed prosperously. Job xl, 8. — “The Lord said to Job: Will you reje… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:323A…that proceedeth from the mouth of God doth man live." Deut. XIII, 3. — "The Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love the Lord your God." Job XL, 8. — "Do you really make my judgment void… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 11:1643A…aking, He is present." Ibid., line 1, before him. It should be read, I opine, "on the first temptation," namely, Job i, 22, for the preceding lines cite from Job xl, 10, where it deals with the second temptat… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 15:925…He shall lay [upon]. Basiliensis. V. 11. Another: strength. Noton [back/loins]. But Aquila is accustomed to translate the Hebrew word noth as noton. So Job XL, 11; Psalm LXV, 11; Psalm LXVII, 4. V. 12.… Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 28:1503A…head of the adversary's evils for the ruin of the soul. And the blessed Job, alluding to this, said of the devil: "He has his power in the navel of the belly" (Job XL, 11). 27. With many and varied machines, t… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:773A…, brings in the dragon in the figure of the devil, and when he had said much about him, among other things he says: "He rests beside the reed and the papyrus" (Job 40:11). The reed is too light and soft. So ev… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1331C…ord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, descend quickly from here; for your people, whom I led out of Egypt, have sinned, and have made for themselves a molten calf. Job 40:11. The power of Satan is in the navel of… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1405A…el. (1 Par. xxi, 1). The strength of Satan is in the navel of his belly. He hath made his tail like a cypress, and his nerves are wrapped together as a rope. (Job xL, 11, 12). His soul is as coals, and his he… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:373A…he bestowed the name of white. LITTERA Υ TIT. I. — De homine contumelioso. Job 11, 12. — « Eos qui insolentia efferebantur, humiliavit. » Job XL, 11. — « Omnem arrogantem humilia. » Prov.… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:381B…is of clay." Job XXIV, 23. — "When he has been weakened, let him not hope to be cured; but he shall fall by a great malady. For exaltation has afflicted many." Job XL, 11. — "Humble every arrogant person; extin… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1149C…e face of the ungodly who has stood? The light of the ungodly shall be put out." (Job xviii, 5) "The faces of the ungodly shall be filled with dishonor." (Job xl, 13) "All the life of the ungodly is in an… OrigenesPG 16:543…as god a and glory and beauty superb make him bow down hide them in the dust together in his loins vulgata latina shall you make my judgment void and condemn me so that you may… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 11:1667A…ch are also the earthy ones." Ibid., who is the beginning [ὅστις ἐστὶν ἀρχή]. Origen here allegorically attributes to the devil what was said of Behemoth in Job xl, 14, according to the Septuagint. But he pu… Basil the Great c. 329–379PG 30:1057B…8. Se diabolum. We have expunged the obscure version, "they hide those who worship the devil and not the Son of God." That some have understood this place in Job xl, 14, as referring to the prince of demons i… Gregory of Agrigentum c. 559 - c. 630 (traditionalPG 98:923C…God created, and as it were a specimen of the ways or works of God: just as also honey in Ecclesiasticus (c. xi, 5) is said to be the sweetest of things. (90) Job xL, 14. According to the LXX, "The beginning o… Alexius I Comnenus 1048–1118PG 127:965D…A; Hieronymum epist. 59, cap. 5; Alcuini Confessionem fidei, parte iii, cap. 38, et Frontonem Ducæum ad librum iv Basilii adversus Eunomium, cum interpretibus Job xl, 14.… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 17:717D…beginning God created heaven and earth (Gen. i, 1). Likewise that of Job: This is the beginning of the molding of the Lord, made to be mocked by his angels (Job xl, 15): the beginning from which something is… Gregory of Agrigentum c. 559 - c. 630 (traditionalPG 98:923…of salmanasar and osea for he introduces god saying to himself behold behemoth which i made with thee he shall eat hay like an ox so that by these words behemoth may appear to be nabuchodonosor… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 17:99…my hand from you and behold as hay he devours v but his force is in the navel of the belly this is the first force against man from here he begins to cause fornication d… Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 26:1215…behold the beasts with thee eat hay like oxen and his vigor is in his loins and his strength in the navel of his belly he sets his tail like a cypress his nerves are woven… Basil the Great c. 329–379PG 30:683…part over the soul through the navel and loins behold it says his strength is in his loins and his power is in the navel of the belly for when the belly becomes fat from taste… Didymus the Blind c. 313–398PG 39:341…but behold a beast is with you eating grass like oxen behold his strength is in his loins and his power is in the navel of the belly he has set up his tail like a… Nilus of Sinai d. c. 430PG 79:455A…hey have not yet been tested, nor shaken, nor winnowed, nor darkened, nor overshadowed, as the Lord says to Job: In the dragon, great trees are overshadowed (Job XL, 16), which means that certain admirable me… Olympiodorus of Alexandria fl. 6th century (c. 500-570)PG 93:425…oxen they become wild again and resume their beastly ferocity behold indeed his strength is in his loins and his power is in the navel of his belly if you take these words regarding the animal… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1405…and provoked david to number israel par xxi the strength of satan is in the navel of his belly he hath made his tail like a cypress and his nerves are wrapped together as a rope… Nicetas of Serres fl. c. 1090PG 127:1291…and crushed by us of whom god speaking to job says behold his strength is in his loins and his power in the navel of the belly by which words it is shown that the devil… PG 2 (anthology)PG 2:1297…strange and most terrible form concerning whom god says to job behold now his strength is in his loins and his power is in the navel of his belly he has made his tail like a… Photius of ConstantinoplePG 104:411A…ife." Page 924, verse 4, "that even the dead." I Thess. IV, 16. Verse 16, H. St. I. C. "fire, a chaste plant." This plant is mentioned in Leviticus XXIII, 40; Job XL, 17. Verse 33, John, Apoc. XX, 13. Verse 6,… OrigenesPG 16:547…of the hebraic text like a cedar like iron rod the beginning of the ways of god he who made him will apply his sword and thicket his shadow willows of the torrent he will not… Diodore of Tarsus d. c. 394PG 33:1619B…ads of the dragons upon the water; Thou didst dash in pieces the head of the dragon, Thou didst give him to be food for the people the Ethiopians." And in Job (Job XL, 20): "And thou wilt draw out dragons with… Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 395PG 44:1389…have peace," which most Vulgate books present. Col. 751 B. Cochleari autem. In Greek, ᾗ δὲ περόνῃ, which word denotes not a spoon properly, but a pin, as in Job 40:20, Symmachus translated, ἐν περόνῃ τρυπήσ… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:651D…serpent in the sea, we will not depart from this opinion; since we find even at Job God speaking thus: "Will you," he says, "draw out the dragon with a hook?" (Job 40:20). This one, having been formed by God,… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 64:23A…into the abyss of this life, and thus to hook the dragon, so that indeed what is written in Job may be fulfilled: "Will you draw out the dragon with a hook?" (Job XL, 20). "The kingdom of heaven is therefo…