Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 12:14

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 299, footnote 4 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 3500 (In-Text, Margin)

... whole earth, and scattereth it abroad in due season, and in just proportions, and neither suffereth the whole substance of moisture to go out free and uncontrolled (for sufficient was the cleansing in the days of Noah; and He who cannot lie is not forgetful of His own covenant);…nor yet restraineth it entirely that we should not again stand in need of an Elias to bring the drought to an end. If He shall shut up heaven, it saith, who shall open it? If He open the floodgates, who shall shut them up?[Job 12:14] Who can bring an excess or withhold a sufficiency of rain, unless he govern the Universe by his own measures and balances? What scientific laws, pray, can you lay down concerning thunder and lightning, O you who thunder from the earth, and cannot ...