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Job 28:25

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Who made the weight for the winds. And he weigheth the waters by measure. For in the Holy Scripture, by the rapidity and subtlety of the winds souls are used to be denoted, as it is spoken by the Psalmist of God; Who walketh above the things of the winds; i.e. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIX ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Lest anyone believe that God receives knowledge taken from things like we do, he shows, consequently, that he knows things as the cause of everything. He therefore continues as to the hidden creatures like the winds and the rains, "he gave the winds their strength," for he gave them their inclination of motion so that sometimes they move in this direction and sometimes in that. …

Commentary on Job ↗