Job 13:4 Douay-Rheims

Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.

Gregory the Great

c. A.D. 540–604 Patristic

First shewing that ye are builders of lies, and votaries of wrong doctrines.

By which same words it is clearly shewn that his friends as in the likeness of heretics oppose the decisions of the holy man's judgment. For it is clear that they do not hold the figure of Catholics, who are termed 'votaries of wrong doctrines.' Wherein this likewise ought to be marked, that they are called 'builders of lies.' For as an edifice is 'built' with stones, so a lie is 'built' with words. For when there is not deceitful speech, but a meaning of truth, it is like a fortified mound, arising not by fabrication, but by nature.

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A.D. 604 · on Job 13:4 (Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI)

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