Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Job 38:6
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 57, footnote 4 (Image)
Basil: Letters and Select Works
The Hexæmeron. (HTML)
In the Beginning God made the Heaven and the Earth. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1404 (In-Text, Margin)
... another support, and thus we shall fall into the infinite, always imagining a base for the base which we have already found. And the further we advance in this reasoning the greater force we are obliged to give to this base, so that it may be able to support all the mass weighing upon it. Put then a limit to your thought, so that your curiosity in investigating the incomprehensible may not incur the reproaches of Job, and you be not asked by him, “Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?”[Job 38:6] If ever you hear in the Psalms, “I bear up the pillars of it;” see in these pillars the power which sustains it. Because what means this other passage, “He hath founded it upon the sea,” if not that the water is spread all around the earth? How then ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 228, footnote 8 (Image)
Ambrose: Select Works and Letters
Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons. (HTML)
Exposition of the Christian Faith. (HTML)
Book II. (HTML)
Chapter V. Certain passages from Scripture, urged against the Omnipotence of Christ, are resolved; the writer is also at especial pains to show that Christ not seldom spoke in accordance with the affections of human nature. (HTML)
40. Aye, let some one show what there is that the Son of God cannot do. Who was His helper, when He made the heavens,—Who, when He laid the foundations of the world?[Job 38:4-6] Had He any need of a helper to set men free, Who needed none in constituting angels and principalities?