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What the Fathers say

Job 24:2

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Others remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them. ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION Whom does he denote by the title of 'others,' saving Heretics, who to the bosom of Holy Church are strangers? For they the same persons remove landmarks, in that the constitutions of the Fathers they by walking awry do overstep. Concerning which same constitutions it is written, Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Since he had said that the course of temporal things was not unknown to God, he consequently shows in what way he judges temporal things, making first a list of the various faults of men, some of whom fraudulently inflict harmful things on others. So he says, "Some," among men, "have changed boundaries," by stealthily changing property limits. They have done the similar things with animals which are pastured in flocks. …

Commentary on Job ↗