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St. Gregory the Great’s massive four-volume commentary on the Book of Job is thought to have been written between 578 and 595. Gregory the Great explicates the Book of Job in a three part structure: historical, mystical, and moral application. Volume three, part one and two of the Morals on the Book of Job covers the Book of Job chapters 32–41.

The thirteenth, with the remaining verses of the forty-first chapter is explained, chiefly with reference to the pride of the Devil, and the most crue persecutions of Antichrist against the Saints. 1. BECAUSE we bear about us a body from this world, let us consider the end of the universe, from the part of it in which we ourselves are1. For we learn more quickly of what kind is the end of the world, if we carefully consider that which we bear about us from the world. For our age flourishes
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