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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...

The Fathers agree in saying that Job preserves, in his affliction and inevitable despair, an undefeatable spirit of gratitude toward God (CHRYSOSTOM, EPHREM, HESYCHIUS). From this we learn that affliction must not become for us a cause of temptation (GREGORY). Nakedness is both gift and benevolence. Job’s words concerning this may best be understood of evil and sin, and not simply of possessions. Our only true possession is godliness, which cannot
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