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Old Testament VI: Job is unavailable, but you can change that!

The excerpts in this collection focus on systematic treatment. Among Greek texts are those from Origen, Didymus the Blind, Julian the Arian, John Chrysostom, Hesychius of Jerusalem and Olympiodorus. Among Latin sources we find Julian of Eclanum, Philip the Priest and Gregory the Great. Among Syriac sources we find Ephrem the Syrian and Isho’dad of Merv, some of whose work is made available here...

coals at them.”15 In fact, he could not, as some people believe, cast thunderbolts, nor brandish lightning, nor set in motion any element. Therefore it is the devil in the semblance of fire who fell on the herds of sheep, with the intention of forcing Job to blaspheme God, as if it were he, who from heaven had destroyed the riches of the righteous. HOMILIES ON JOB 3.1.16.16 . DIDYMUS THE BLIND: It is remarkable how the news from the second [messenger] increases Job’s pain. “Fire
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