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Gregory the Great: Morals on the Book of Job, Vol. 4

Gregory the Great · translated by Members of the English Church (Library of the Fathers) · c. 579–595; translation 1850

Gregory's great commentary on Job, read through the Middle Ages as a school of the spiritual life (books 28–35).

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From the opening: Book XXX

Contains an exposition of the last eight verses of the thirty-eighth chapter, and of the same number of the thirty-ninth: where the holy Doctor discusses very many questions in a pious and learned manner, especially concerning the preaching of the Gospel.

1. Blessed Job is asked by God, Who questions him, Book whether he has done such things as man is surely unable to do; in order that, when he discovers that he cannot do them,

he may fly for refuge to Him, Whom he understands to be the only One Who is able to do them, and that he may appear more powerful before the eyes of his Judge, if he learns more truly his own infirmities. Of that then which is well known to be wonderfully wrought by God, Job is questioned by the Divine Voice; and it is said to him;

Ver. 34. Wilt thou lift up thy voice in the cloud, and shall the force of the waters cover thee?

2. For God in truth lifts up His voice in the cloud, when He frames His exhortation to the darkened hearts of unbelievers, by the tongues of His preachers. And the force of the waters covers Him, when the crowd of opposing people oppresses His inembers who are acting rightly. For hence

is that which is written, The word of the Lord cayne to Jer. 26, Jeremiah, saying. Stand in the court of the Lord's house, speaking to all the cities of Judah, from which men come to ivorship in the Lord's house, all the words that J have commanded thee. And a little after. And the priests, and the^^-'^—^- prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord. And when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking, the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, look him, saying. Let hiin surely die, why hath he prophesied in the name of the Lord? Behold, the VOL. III. B b

362 God^s Voice raised in a cloud, bi/ Mystical Teaching.

Job 38, Lord lifted up His voice in a cloud, because He reproved — ^— the darkened minds of the haughty by sending the Prophet against them. Behold, the face of the waters covered Him immediately; because He Himself, Who commanded the words of reproof, suffered all things in the person of Jeremiah from the people who rose against him, and were provoked by reason of their reproof. The Lord also raised up His voice in a cloud by Himself, when on exhibiting Himself before us in His assumed body, He preached many things to His persecutors, but veiled in enigmatical figures. He raised…

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Contents (64 sections)

  1. Opening
  2. Title page
  3. Book XXX
  4. Book XXX
  5. Book XXX
  6. Book XXX
  7. Book XXXI
  8. Book XXXI
  9. Book XXXI
  10. Book XXXI
  11. Book XXXI
  12. Book XXXII
  13. Chapter XL — ver. I, 2. But the Lord answered unto Job ow E. V. of the whirhvlnd, and…
  14. Chapter XL — ver. I, 2. But the Lord answered unto Job ow E. V. of the whirhvlnd, and… (continued)
  15. Chapter XL — ver. I, 2. But the Lord answered unto Job ow E. V. of the whirhvlnd, and… (continued)
  16. Book XXXIII
  17. Book XXXIII
  18. Book XXXIII
  19. Book XXXIII
  20. Book XXXIV
  21. Book XXXIV
  22. Book XXXIV
  23. Book XXXV
  24. Book XXXV
  25. Book XXXV
  26. The Acts of the Holy Apostles
  27. The Acts of the Holy Apostles (continued)
  28. The Acts of the Holy Apostles (continued)
  29. The Acts of the Holy Apostles (continued)
  30. The Acts of the Holy Apostles (continued)
  31. D (continued)
  32. D (continued)
  33. D (continued)
  34. D (continued)
  35. D (continued)
  36. D (continued)
  37. D (continued)
  38. D (continued)
  39. Part, the Third, of the Morals, left by S. Greg, much in the state in which he had spoken…
  40. Part, the Third, of the Morals, left by S. Greg, much in the state in which he had spoken… (continued)
  41. Preface (continued)
  42. Preface (continued)
  43. Preface (continued)
  44. Preface (continued)
  45. Preface (continued)
  46. Preface (continued)
  47. Preface (continued)
  48. Publication of the Original Texts
  49. Extracts from the Plan of the Work
  50. Rivingtons, London. J. H. Parker, Oxford
  51. 1 Gus.oenazianzumr" •- Originals
  52. Basil, S. the Great :Hrysosrom, S
  53. Cyril, S. of Jerusalem
  54. Cyril, S. of Jerusalem (continued)
  55. Qui Ante Occidentis Et Orientis Schisma Floruerunt
  56. Corinthios, Gr ce
  57. Dam Ad Corinthios
  58. Part VII
  59. John Henry Parker, Oxford and London
  60. Oxford and London
  61. Edited by the Rev. E. B. Pusev, D.d
  62. Fellow of Oriel College
  63. Reciprocal Obligations of the Church and the
  64. The Pastor in His Closet; Ou, a Help to the Devotions

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Gregory the Great. Gregory the Great: Morals on the Book of Job, Vol. 4. Translated by Members of the English Church (Library of the Fathers). Internet Archive, c. 579–595; translation 1850. https://archive.org/details/p2moralsonbookof03greguoft
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Gregory the Great. Gregory the Great: Morals on the Book of Job, Vol. 4. Translated by Members of the English Church (Library of the Fathers), Internet Archive, c. 579–595; translation 1850. https://archive.org/details/p2moralsonbookof03greguoft
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Gregory the Great (c. 579–595; translation 1850). Gregory the Great: Morals on the Book of Job, Vol. 4 (Members of the English Church (Library of the Fathers), Trans.). Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/p2moralsonbookof03greguoft

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