Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Job 26:7
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 403, footnote 5 (Image)
Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statutes
The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch. (HTML)
Homily IX (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1419 (In-Text, Margin)
8. And who is there that must not feel astonished and amazed at these things; and confidently pronounce that they are not the works of nature, but of that Providence which is above nature? Therefore one speaks thus: “Who hangeth the earth upon nothing.”[Job 26:7] And another observes, “In His hands are the corners of the earth.” And again: “He hath laid the foundation of it upon the seas.” And these declarations, though they seem contrary to one another, have yet an entire agreement. For he that said, “He hath laid the foundation of it upon the seas,” meant the same thing as he did who declared, “He hath hung it upon nothing.” ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 9, page 28b, footnote 4 (Image)
Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. (HTML)
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. (HTML)
Book II (HTML)
Concerning earth and its products. (HTML)
... is one of the four elements, dry, cold, heavy, motionless, brought into being by God, out of nothing on the first day. For in the beginning, he said, God created the heaven and the earth: but the seat and foundation of the earth no man has been able to declare. Some, indeed, hold that its seat is the waters: thus the divine David says, To Him Who established the earth on the waters. Others place it in the air. Again some other says, He Who hangeth the earth on nothing[Job 26:7]. And, again, David, the singer of God, says, as though the representative of God, I bear up the pillars of it, meaning by “pillars” the force that sustains it. Further, the expression, He hath founded it upon the seas, shews clearly ...