Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 3:3

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 178, footnote 7 (Image)

Ambrose: Select Works and Letters

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On the Decease of His Brother Satyrus. (HTML)

Book II. On the Belief in the Resurrection. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1509 (In-Text, Margin)

32. But Solomon was not the only person who felt this, though he alone gave expression to it. He had read the words of holy Job: “Let the day perish wherein I was born.”[Job 3:3] Job had recognized that to be born is the beginning of all woes, and therefore wished that the day on which he was born might perish, so that the origin of all troubles might be removed, and wished that the day of his birth might perish that he might receive the day of resurrection. For Solomon had heard his father’s saying: “Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, that I may know what is ...