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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Ver. 10. With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than thy father. That all Heretics are gone out of the Holy Church Universal, John testifies, when he says, They went out from us, but they were not of us. But that those things which they maintain they may recommend to the weak minds of their fellow-creatures as on the grounds of antiquity, they testify that they have ancient fathers, and the very Doctors of the Church themselves they declare are the masters of their school; and whilst they look down upon …
Thomas Aquinas
But since Job could boast of knowledge received from others, he then says, "Both old men," in dignity of knowledge and life, "and the elders," in time, "are much older among us than your fathers," than your teachers from whom you received knowledge, or according to the literal sense, your ancestors. He wants to convey a greater knowledge from a greater age, because a man is made wiser by long experience in years.
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