Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 38:3

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 26, footnote 18 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Eustochium. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 418 (In-Text, Margin)

... reproductive organs of the two sexes are meant. Thus, the descendant of David, who, according to the promise is to sit upon his throne, is said to come from his loins. And the seventy-five souls descended from Jacob who entered Egypt are said to come out of his thigh. So, also, when his thigh shrank after the Lord had wrestled with him, he ceased to beget children. The Israelites, again, are told to celebrate the passover with loins girded and mortified. God says to Job: “Gird up thy loins as a man.”[Job 38:3] John wears a leathern girdle. The apostles must gird their loins to carry the lamps of the Gospel. When Ezekiel tells us how Jerusalem is found in the plain of wandering, covered with blood, he uses the words: “Thy navel has not been cut.” In his ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 287, footnote 5 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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

CCEL Footnote 3406 (In-Text, Margin)

VIII. And yet, O talkative Dialectician, I will ask thee one small question,[Job 38:3] and answer thou me, as He saith to Job, Who through whirlwind and cloud giveth Divine admonitions. 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. ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 430, footnote 1 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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The Second Oration on Easter. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4627 (In-Text, Margin)

... passion, be restrained by a girdle of continence, so that you may eat the Passover purely, having mortified your members which are upon the earth, and copying the girdle of John, the Hermit and Forerunner and great Herald of the Truth. Another girdle I know, the soldierly and manly one, I mean, from which the Euzoni of Syria and certain Monozoni take their name. And it is in respect of this too that God saith in an oracle to Job, “Nay, but gird up thy loins like a man, and give a manly answer.”[Job 38:3] With this also holy David boasts that he is girded with strength from God, and speaks of God Himself as clothed with strength and girded about with power—against the ungodly of course—though perhaps some may prefer to see in this a declaration of ...