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Patristic A.D. 604 · Historical Christian Faith commentaries database, on Job 24:4 (Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI)

Gregory the Great, on Job 24:4

Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604
Job 24:4 · Douay-Rheims
“They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.”
On this verse:
“They have turned the needy out of the way; and have oppressed together the meek of the earth. For by the term of 'poverty,' humility is very often denoted, and very often they that appear gentle and humble, if they have not learnt to maintain discretion, fall by the examples of other men. But there are some Heretics, who eschew to mix themselves with the multitudes, and seek the retirement of a life of greater privacy, and these very often with the bane of their persuasion poison those that they meet with the more, in proportion as by the claims of their life they the more seem deserving of respect.”

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