Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 18:15

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 74, footnote 3 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Pammachius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1130 (In-Text, Margin)

... you compare all created things with Him they have no existence. “Give not thy sceptre,” says Esther, “unto them that be nothing” —that is to say, to idols and demons. And certainly they were idols and demons to whom she prayed that she and hers might not be given over. In Job also we read how Bildad says of the wicked man: “His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and destruction as a king shall trample upon him. The companions also of him who is not shall abide in his tabernacle.”[Job 18:14-15] This evidently relates to the devil, who must be in existence, otherwise he could not be said to have companions. Still, because he is lost to God, he is said not to be.