Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 38:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 274, footnote 9 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3326 (In-Text, Margin)

18. Such was the lot of Job: such at first sight his history. In reality it was a contest between virtue and envy: the one straining every nerve to overcome the good, the other enduring everything, that it might abide unsubdued; the one striving to smooth the way for vice, by means of the chastisement of the upright, the other to retain its hold upon the good, even if they do exceed others in misfortunes. What then of Him who answered Job out of the whirlwind and cloud,[Job 38:1] Who is slow to chastise and swift to help, Who suffers not utterly the rod of the wicked to come into the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous should learn iniquity? At the end of the contests He declares the victory of the athlete in a splendid proclamation ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 287, footnote 6 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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The First Theological Oration.  A Preliminary Discourse Against the Eunomians. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3407 (In-Text, Margin)

VIII. And yet, O talkative Dialectician, I will ask thee one small question, and answer thou me, as He saith to Job, Who through whirlwind and cloud giveth Divine admonitions.[Job 38:1] Are there many mansions in God’s House, as thou hast heard, or only one? Of course you will admit that there are many, and not only one. Now, are they all to be filled, or only some, and others not; so that some will be left empty, and will have been prepared to no purpose? Of course all will be filled, for nothing can be in vain which has been done by God. And can you tell me what you will consider this ...