Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 3:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 262, footnote 4 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

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Against Eustathius of Sebasteia. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2879 (In-Text, Margin)

... Preacher. Time enough has been given to silence, and now the time has come to open my mouth for the publication of the truth concerning matters that are, up to now, unknown. The illustrious Job bore his calamities for a long time in silence, and ever showed his courage by holding out under the most intolerable sufferings, but when he had struggled long enough in silence, and had persisted in covering his anguish in the bottom of his heart, at last he opened his mouth and uttered his well-known words.[Job 3:1] In my own case this is now the third year of my silence, and my boast has become like that of the Psalmist, “I was as a man that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reproofs.” Thus I shut up in the bottom of my heart the pangs which I suffered on ...