Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 1:3

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 240, footnote 1 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 3008 (In-Text, Margin)

7. This is what I know upon these points: and therefore it is that I both am aware and assert that her soul was more noble than those of the East,[Job 1:3] according to a better than the ordinary rule of noble or ignoble birth, whose distinctions depend not on blood but on character; nor does it classify those whom it praises or blames according to their families, but as individuals. But speaking as I do of her excellences among those who know her, let each one join in contributing some particular and aid me in my speech: for it is impossible for one man to take in every ...