Gregory the Dialogist — on Job 6:21

Gregory the Great — on Job 6:21 (Morals on the Book of Job, Book VII)

Patristic A.D. 604

Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604

“For now ye are come, to see my stroke, and are afraid. As though he said in plain words, 'I feared God then, when, buoyed up with prosperity, I felt no hurts of the scourge. But ye, who fear not God from love, dread Him from the stroke of the rod alone.”

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Gregory the Great — on Job 6:21 (Morals on the Book of Job, Book VII)

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