Gregory the Great, on Job 30:5

“Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.”

“Who carrying these same off from the valleys, when they found each of them, ran to them with clamour. Which persons if ever in sacred Revelation they seemingly discover things with sagacity, which while they do not understand, they fancy make for their statements, they directly scatter these vociferating them to their wretched hearers, whom they covet not the souls of but the substance. They 'carry them off from the valleys,' because with a high spirit they gather them from the lowly sayings of the Fathers. Which same whilst they exult to have found making for their cause, they run to them with outcries, because every thing that they have a perception of, by the appetite of praise they strive to cry abroad to the ears of men.”

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